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DistrictLine School’s Out

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Petar Dimtchev, a political unknown, challenges Mary Cheh for the Ward 3 Council seat.

By Mitch Ryals At A corner table in the Tenleytown Panera, Petar Dimtchev is scrolling through his phone. He wants to show off an audio clip.

Dimtchev, 32, is challenging three-term incumbent Mary Cheh for the Ward 3 Council seat. He’s an independent; Cheh is a Democrat.

Dimtchev hasbeen running a shoe-leather campaign since February, claiming to have knocked on 5,000 doors. He says that he’s focusing on “bread and butter issues,” echoing The Washington Post’s recent endorsement of his campaign.

Dimtchev finds the clip and hits play. The voice of Georgia-born rapper 2 Chainz comes through his phone: “2 Chainz checkin’ in right quick DJ Dimmy you diiiig...”

DJ Dimmy is Dimtchev’s stage name when he works as a local DJ—a side hustle he started while he was in law school. But Dimtchev cuts the clip short, as Mr. Chainz apparently went on to say something “inappropriate.” He’ll repeat what the rapper said, but it’s off the record.

Dressed in a blue suit and a white collared shirt, his hair combed nicely, Dimtchev is performing a balancing act. Immediately after the 2 Chainz clip, he pivots to talking points from

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his campaign. He got into DJing because of a love of music he developed growing up in Ward 3 schools (Francis Scott Key Elementary, Alice Deal Middle School, and the School Without Walls in Ward 2 for high school).

And schools are where he’s focused much of his attention these past nine months. They’re overcrowded, he says. And the only way to fix that is to build a new school in Ward 3.

Education is also the area where he’s most critical of Cheh, who has proposed two bills in the wake of a series of school scandals.

Dimtchev says he sees a lack of urgency from Cheh on some issues, and suggests that constituents in Ward 3 feel ignored.

“The fact that the streets are in the condition that they are, the fact that we have a school overcrowding problem, those are testaments to the fact that we don’t have a councilmember who is engaged with the community as much as she should be,” he says.

Cheh appears mildly annoyed when City Paper presents her with these accusations. She points to her work to increase the infrastructure budgets across all eight wards to address crumbling roads; and she says she’s worked to secure funds to build additions at two elementary schools, Francis Scott Key and Stoddert, where overflow students currently attend class in trailers.

Cheh points to Dimtchev’s resume, which includes unpaid legal clerkships in the U.S. Attorney’s Office and for the House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, to show his relative inexperience in lawmaking.

Dimtchev also served as a Ward 3 liaison for former Mayor Adrian Fenty, one of the socalled “MOCRS,” an acronym for the Mayor’s Office of Community Relations and Services.

“I would match my record and my attention to everything I do here with any member of the Council,” says Cheh, who is a tenured law professor at George Washington University. “I work harder and longer than I think anybody else on the Council. Frankly, I don’t know what they do with their time.” eArlier this yeAr, an investigation by an outside consulting firm found that more than one-third of DC Public School students graduated in 2017 despite not meeting the district’s grading and attendance requirements. And in February, former Deputy Mayor for Education Jennifer Niles resigned after it became public that she helped former schools Chancellor Antwan Wilson skirt the school lottery process to transfer his daughter to a different school. Wilson, who also resigned, has since said that Mayor Muriel Bowser knew about his daughter’s transfer. Bowser has denied any previous knowledge.

Cheh’s two education bills address aspects of these issues. The first chips away at mayoral control of D.C.’s education system by removing the mayor’s authority to appoint the superintendent. That responsibility would go to the nine-member elected State Board of Education under Cheh’s bill.

“We need somebody at a distance looking at what’s happening and gathering information,” she says. “We can’t fix stuff if we don’t know what’s wrong. So it’s a way to [make sure] we’re honest about where the problems are and that there are actual recommendations free of any politics about how to proceed.”

Councilmembers Robert White Jr. and Anita Bonds have signed onto Cheh’s bill, but Dimtchev believes removing the mayor’s authority to appoint the superintendent is a mistake.

“When I was growing up, the education system was run by the Board of Education, and we had a lot of issues,” he says. “You have to have centralized leadership in order to hold people accountable.”

The second of Cheh’s bills would establish the Education Research Collaborative in the D.C. Auditor’s office. The collaborative would collect and analyze school data and provide recommendations to improve the system.

A fiscal analysis shows that it would take

$500,000 to get the program up and running—money Dimtchev says should be spent elsewhere.

Cheh says the bill would provide necessary information to the Council and the public to effectively reform the school system; eight other councilmembers have given their support.

“Good morninG!” dimtchev bellows to passersby outside the Cleveland Park Library on the first day of early voting in Ward 3.

“I’m Petar, and I’m running to be your councilmember. I’m happy to say I’m endorsed by The Washington Post.”

In its endorsement, the newspaper’s editorial board praises Dimtchev’s focus on potholes, small businesses, and school overcrowding.

The board says Cheh’s efforts to wrest some control of the education system away from the mayor is “worrying.”

Cheh, for her part, shrugs off The Post’s snub. “If you question the mayor and their scheme about mayoral control, then that’s the end of it. It’s almost like a jihad for them,” she says, referring to the editorial board. “If you’re at all questioning or offering alternatives, it’s like heresy with them.”

Cheh and Dimtchev diverge in other areas.

Cheh, for example, supported Initiative 77, the voter-approved, Council-repealed measure that would have forced employers to pay bartenders and servers the full minimum wage, rather than rely on customer tips. Dimtchev believes the law is too burdensome for small businesses, though both say they do not support the Council’s decision to reverse the will of the voters.

Dimtchev also doesn’t support the new paid family leave law, which taxes employers in order to fund paid time off to care for personal and family medical needs for private sector workers. Cheh voted in favor of the law in 2016.

Outside the Cleveland Park Library, 15-yearold Giulio Iacoviello, who has the day off of school, is volunteering for Dimtchev’s campaign. “I really like his policies,” Iacoviello says. “As a high school student, I really like his emphasis on education.”

As voters trickle out of the polling place, some stop to talk about their choices. One woman says she always votes Democrat, so Cheh got her vote. An older couple say they voted for Cheh due in part to her quick response to a problem with their taxes. And another woman, Cortney McCoy, voted for Dimchev because she, too, agrees with his focus on education.

“I think his values align with what the neighborhood needs,” McCoy says. “I appreciate that he’s from the area, and I agree with what he’s running on. School reform is a big one.”

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DistrictLinE Clearing the Air

D.C.-area shamans will energetically cleanse your home, holding space for the people who lived there before.

By Morgan Baskin Call it what you want—energy healing, folk magic, shamanism—Richael Faithful will meet you where you are.

The 33-year-old healer performs a range of these healing arts, but acknowledges that the field of energy work “might be at the edge of words.”

“I don’t expect us all to have one language to describe everything,” Faithful says. “I think wherever I am invited and there’s openness, I can work.” For Faithful, much of that work includes clearing homes and land for new owners, making a spiritual and physical space for them in a place where others have lived before.

Some people ask for these rituals (or cleansings, or acknowledgments) because they “know about energy work and are making sure things are good before we move here.” But others, Faithful says, are “folks who are skeptical—the house is for them, it’s perfect and the timing is right, but something feels off. They don’t know how to understand it or explain it.

So they find someone like me.”

The cultural fascination with, and commodification of, energy work––using plants, herbs, crystals, or other implements with the goal of bringing spiritual harmony to a particular space––has increased significantly in recent years. Stores like West Elm and Sephora sell “ritual kits” that contain items like rose quartz, lavender, and essential oil. Luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton reportedly employs a Brazilian shaman to keep the rain away from outdoor fashion shows.

The newly opened K Street NW boutique hotel, Eaton House, has an in-home shaman on speed dial. And millennial-focused websites like Refinery29 and Apartment Therapy post blog after blog about how to clear unwanted spirits from the home and give new spaces “fresh” energy. (Last month, a crew from PBS reached out to Faithful on behalf of Michael Moore, who is working on a political docu-series. The crew wanted Faithful to perform a cleansing of the Democratic National Committee headquarters before the midterm elections. “For the integrity of the medicine, I just can’t do it. I think the joke about the DNC is funny, but not if it’s a joke about the medi-

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cine,” Faithful says.)

Much of what popular culture has ingested, like the burning of white sage, is a riff on centuries-old indigenous traditions that have been taken out of context. Faithful, for their part, believes that burning sage is cultural appropriation. Other modern practices steal (or borrow, if you want to be generous) from a combination of spiritual and religious traditions, like the Yoruba religion, Afro-Cuban santería, or pagan witchcraft. Faithful’s work is centered around the traditions of folk medicine practiced by black Americans with generations of ancestors on the continent.

While Faithful typically receives specific requests to perform home cleansings and land rituals roughly a dozen times per year, that number has been increasing lately, they say, a fact they attribute to increased awareness

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about land politics and displacement.

Faithful emphasizes that in popular culture this “energy” is often portrayed as nebulous bad juju or a malevolent poltergeist jingling cabinets in the night, rather than an imprint of the very real people who once inhabited a home or piece of land, and who could very likely have left under tragic circumstances. Faithful says that because the change that occurs in a home when people move isn’t ever neutral—especially in the District, a city with scars from slavery, rapid urbanization, and displacement—it’s important to acknowledge that local history before moving into a new space.

Moving into a new home “is an extension of these cycles of gentrification, in terms of history, of displacement. They tend to be violent events, even if they’re not visible, and even if it’s not how we think of violence. As

people are displaced, that’s usually within the context of a lot of pain,” Faithful says.

“Whether people are forced out because of rising housing prices, trapped in a structurally coercive loan ... whatever the reason folks are being displaced naturally, there’s a lot of grief and despair and loss that people experience within this structure of a home, and on this land that they’re lived. I believe that exists, and I don’t believe that goes away because a person goes away.”

Faithful performs cleansings, in part, so that someone can bear witness to the past, to “acknowledge the loss for the sake of those who have been displaced in particular,” and also to encourage new home or land owners to “be more responsible stewards of the home.”

But these ceremonies, which healers say can range from a succinct 15 minutes to multiple hour-long sessions, aren’t just for new occupants of a home. Renata Maniaci, a local body and energy worker who holds a master’s degree in public health from Columbia, says she performs energy clearings if one of a home’s occupants moves out or dies.

The rituals change depending on the person, place, and energy of the space, but Faithful’s ceremony tends to center around a few key items. They use myrrh, a fragrant resin that’s cited in the Bible as one of the gifts presented to Jesus at birth, as well as salt and hyssop, a minty plant with historical uses as a purification tool. The latter has a particular significance in the tradition of black folk medicine, Faithful says.

Other local energy healers, like Abby Dobbs, who used to own Kali Yoga Studio on 14th Street NW, and Maniaci, say they often use crystals or palo santo wood to clear a space, along with positive intentions or prayer.

While the ceremony varies, Faithful says more broadly that they “acknowledge [the former inhabitants], make them real, and ask the people, the new owners to participate to the degree they’re able. Some people are into energy and understand it the way I do. I’ll ask them to do a ritual or keep something in memorial or meditate and pray on what’s been brought forward.”

The healers City Paper spoke with say they don’t solicit a standard fee for the rituals. Many don’t advertise the service perform cleansings only for family and friends. Faithful and others accept trades, like handmade goods, or whatever the client can afford. One person gave Faithful a family heirloom.

“It’s deep, right? There’s so much history. Even apart from this era of displacement, there’s a long, long history. Not even to mention all the indigenous history,” Faithful says.

“It’s a long-term process [for] real deep, violent history on the land or in the structure ...

Spaces even make requests of us. My sense is, a place might take a long time, maybe as long as it’s existed, to make it whole again.”

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Climb-It Change

Groups like Brown Girls Climb and Brothers of Climbing are making rock climbing more diverse.

Damon Yeh

2017 Color the Crag Climbing Festival

By Kelyn Soong EvEry timE BEthany LEBEwitz went rock climbing, she felt the eyes of strangers weighing her down. She struggled to fo cus.

She questioned her abilities. She had trouble shaking those feelings, but eventually, Lebewitz says, she learned to internalize them.

“I couldn’t unpack what it was that I was experiencing,” she says. “It was interrupting my performance as a climber. That was in my head instead of the climb. That was a big deal.”

Now she can trace those emotions, which she felt when she first moved to the D.C. area a few years ago, back to a climbing session at the New River Gorge National River in West

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Virginia. While pausing in the air to admire the stunning view of the park, Lebewitz scanned her surroundings and the group of climbers she traveled with, including her husband.

“Oh, my gosh,” she thought to herself in the middle of a climb, “there’s like all white people except me.” Lebewitz, who identifies as biracial, realized she was the only person of color there.

She confided in her brother and her friends, who encouraged her to start an Instagram account to share her story. On Oct. 31, 2016, Lebewitz posted the first photo to @browngirlsclimb, an image of her climbing at Red Rock Canyon in Las Vegas. A few weeks later, she included the handle as a hashtag in her photos.

The account, which features Lebewitz and other female climbers of color, took off and currently has nearly 11,000 followers. Brown

Girls Climb has become a movement and grown into a for-profit organization that hosts monthly events for female climbers of color, mostly in the D.C. area and Colorado, where Lebewitz, 30, now lives. Other groups and efforts like Outdoor Afro, Latino Outdoors, District of Color Climbers, and the D.C. chapter of the New York-based nonprofit Brothers of Climbing also exist to promote and increase diversity in the sport of rock climbing.

Recent racial demographic data reveal that in 2017, 20.01 percent of USA Climbing “stakeholders,” like members and gym owners, identified as non-white; 7.1 percent identified as African-American, 6.5 percent as Asian, and 2.5 percent as Latinx. The data, which were collected last year in a survey by Dr. Ryan Gagnon, USA Climbing’s research advisor and an assistant professor of parks, recreation, and tourism

management at Clemson University, only reinforces what people in the climbing community already know. The sport, and the space it occupies, is visibly homogenous.

“We’re all skewed quite heavily to white men right now,” says Erica Espenak, the director at the Earth Treks Climbing Center in Rockville. “It’s blatantly obvious. You don’t really need the data to see that. But it’s definitely getting better.”

Gagnon’s numbers show that to be true—to an extent. Four years ago, the number of nonwhite “stakeholders” within the USA Climbing community was 11 percent. “Contextualizing this deliberate shift in representativeness provides some hope for the sport, and demonstrates progress is possible,” says Gagnon.

But while participation by people of color may be up among those affiliated with USA Climbing, the national governing body of competition climbing, some climbers are still questioned about their presence in outdoor spaces.

When Gabrielle Dickerson first started climbing about three years ago, she climbed outside almost every weekend. She liked how she got stronger at each climb and the physical act of ascending a rock, but occasionally, she felt like she didn’t belong. Often times, Dickerson says, she was one of only a few women at these climbs, and almost always the only black woman. Some of Dickerson’s peers made assumptions about her that only deepened her isolation.

“There would be people coming up to me to ask if I was the girlfriend of a friend climbing,” she says. “They’d assume I was sitting there just to take pictures. They didn’t think I was climbing at that high of a level or that I was capable.”

Dickerson, 21, leaned on the Brown Girls Climb community and is now the group’s social media manager. For inspiration, she clicks through the hashtag and sees women of color that she has never met before succeeding in a space that often doesn’t have representatives that look like her.

“To be able to see other people of color climbing, crushing at climbing, and be able to meet up with people and have this safe space and this representation is so important,” says Dickerson, a resident of Waldorf, Maryland.

Once a month, Brown Girls Climb hosts a meetupat a local climbing gym where members can work on techniques, learn about historic climbers of color, and find the confidence to excel as climbers and leaders in the industry. One of Lebewitz’s primary goals, she says, is to help place women of color in leadership positions in the climbing world and beyond.

Lebewitz met Brittany Leavitt at a local Mappy Hour event, the outdoor enthusiast’s take on a happy hour. The two immediately con-

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SPORTS nected through their shared interests and both speak passionately about their efforts to bring more people of color into climbing. Leavitt, 29, currently lives in Hyattsville and is the regional director of Brown Girls Climb and a community leader for Outdoor Afro in the D.C. area. She’s also an Outdoor School instructor for REI. “Being a part of these community spaces has been so helpful,” Leavitt says. “It’s helped me with my own personal experiences not to close the door on people and making sure they leave the door open for others. There’s an infinity line of opportunity and knowledge to spread down.”

On a Wednesday in mid-October, Lebewitz’s mind is racing. In a day, she will host the second annual Color the Crag, which bills itself as “the most diverse climbing festival.” The event has attracted high-profile supporters like title sponsor The North Face and featured sponsor REI Co-op. She has to call food vendors and volunteers, and coordinate with her fellow leaders to make sure everything is ready to go for the fourday festival in Steele, Alabama.

The first night opens with a tamale dinner, a welcome message from the leaders, and a meetand-greet. About 200 people are in attendance.

“We all know each other from Instagram” says Lebewitz, “but seeing them climb is really transformative. ...It’s like, ‘Whoa.’ It’s not just having black and brown faces on the crag.

There’s a cultural shift of having leadership from these communities.”

Color the Crag formed out of a partnership between Lebewitz, now the executive director of Brown Girls Climb, and Mikhail Martin, the co-founder of Brothers of Climbing.

Lebewitz first got to know Martin, who started his group with friends David Glace and Andrew Belletty in 2012, on a video chat with other climbers and outdoor athletes of color.

Martin suggested they should meet up. They chatted, and floated the idea of hosting a festival. The #browngirlsclimb hashtag had gone viral and REI featured Brothers of Climbing in a 2017 YouTube video.

“He was like, ‘I think we have enough people to show up. Let’s do it.’ We started planning right away,” Lebewitz says.

Climbing, says Jess Yang, is a sport that teaches athletes to persevere, whether that’s by breaking through mental blocks, or figuring out the right position to place your feet to get to the next hold. It’s in that same vein that she is approaching her role as lead ambassador of Brothers of Climbing. The 28-year-old Annandale resident wants to “remove any sort of barriers coming into climbing.”

Gym memberships can be pricey (it costs $120 for a 30-day membership for individual Earth Trek members and $100 for the same amount of days at Sportrock), and that doesn’t include certain gear. Learning all of the requisite skills in the variety of disciplines and terminology can be daunting. Bouldering is different than sport

climbing, which is different than top rope climbing, which is different than lead climbing.

In this sense, Yang says, she wants everyone, not just minorities, to feel comfortable and welcomed. Brown Girls Climb and Brothers of Climbing can provide an instant sense of community.

“We want to make this space an open space to everyone, no matter your race, ethnicity, or background,” she says. “For me, the people who I climb with become like family to me— the whole support system, not just in climbing, but within your life too.”

Those in charge of the sprawling gyms like Sportlock, which has two locations in Virginia, and Earth Treks, which operates four Maryland centers and one in Crystal City, are starting to offer incentives for groups that promote diversity.

Sportrock in Alexandria offers free and discounted programs and non-profit groups can apply for discounts, says assistant director Leah Thomas. There is also a free event for adaptive climbers once a month that is run with the help of volunteers. The gym also provides internship programs and works with groups that benefit local youth like Second Story or City Kids Wilderness Project, according to Molly Donelan, Sportrock’s director of programs and events.

“Of course it is part of our mission to bring in more people of color, since it is part of our mission to make climbing accessible to everyone,” Donelan writes in an email. “Sportrock has a place for everyone, regardless of color.”

Earth Treks has also partnered with a few groups, but on a more informal, gym-level basis, meaning that there is no uniform outreach program across all of the centers. But inclusivity, says Espenak, the director of the Rockville gym, is on everyone’s minds. It’s one of the company’s core values.

“It’s an action item,” she says. “We’re making the effort to go find people to work with and make the gym a more welcoming place.”

Darious Phillips, another local ambassador for Brothers of Climbing, was working out at the Earth Treks in Columbia, Maryland earlier this month with a friend. The two had recently returned from Color the Crag, and felt empowered through four days of climbing, eating, dancing, and attending workshops with other climbers of color. Phillips had just come down from a climb, and the two were standing under a steep wall, when a young black girl ran past her instructor and other people in staff shirts to ask them a question.

She too wanted to know if she could go to the top of the wall. She was asking for their help. Phillips, who lives in Baltimore, believes she chose them because they look like her. His friend blushed. Of course, they told her. The little girl then sprinted back to her aunt, leaving the two 20-something men speechless.

“I mean, that is why we do this,” Phillips says.

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STAYING

PUT One storied building holds many of the few hundred remaining Chinese and Chinese-American residents in D.C.’s Chinatown.

By Kristy Choi Photographs by Darrow Montgomery

Wah Luck house stands on the corner of 6th and H streets NW in the heart of D.C.’s shrinking Chinatown. Just around the corner from the Friendship Archway, this low-income apartment complex houses—in its 153 units— the majority of the remaining Chinese immigrant population in Chinatown.

A Taiwanese immigrant named Alfred H. Liu designed both Wah Luck House and the archway in the early 1980s. At the time, they were unusually tall additions to the neighborhood. Nearly four decades after Wah Luck opened in 1982, Chinatown is one of the most expensive residential neighborhoods in D.C., and also the ultimate urban downtown, replete with major chain stores, a sports arena, and bright electric signage.

Yet Liu’s Wah Luck, 10 sturdy stories of concrete and brick, continues to stand its ground in the fray of rapid gentrification. And so have its residents. On sunnier days, even the oldest among them will take a walk across the busy block or look out from their balcony boxes.

These people have stayed through it all: the closing of Chinese-owned grocery stores and businesses, friends passing away or moving out to the suburbs.

Wah Luck’s residents recently survived a sale. Nonetheless, many residents continue

to feel uneasy or insecure. Aspects of the sale left some of them confused, and they are still reeling from what they see as more than a decade of poor property management. And bigger picture, the growing value of the land under Wah Luck is plain to all who have watched the neighborhood change.

Denver-based national real estate company Aimco (Apartment Investment and Management Company) officially sold Wah Luck House in August 2017 to Wah Luck House Preservation LLC for $55 million dollars. Local businesswoman and real estate developer Yeni Wong manages WLHP. Tenants have long known her as the owner of two nearby restaurants, Chinatown Garden and Joy Luck House.

Developer Andrew Agetstein is a key partner in the deal. He formed Pala Chinatown Holdings in 2017, and through this entity went in on the purchase with Wong. Notably, Agetstein was the Vice President for Aimco from 2002 up until August 2012. Wong tells City Paper that when she heard the news that Agetstein had left Aimco, she promptly called him up to see if he was interested in helping her purchase Wah Luck House. She says she began pursuing Wah Luck that year.

The most important features of the sale

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are threefold: The predominantly senior and Chinese or Chinese-American tenants get to stay in the building; tenants continue to pay affordable rents through the Section 8 housing voucher program; and the building will undergo a renovation that Wong says will cost $9 million in total. Current property manager Fan Zhang reports that renovations of apartment units are already underway and that a renovation of the first floor of the building should be completed by the spring.

The acquisition and rehabilitation of Wah Luck is being funded by multiple partners: a $39 million investment from the District of Columbia Housing Finance Agency (DCHFA), $24 million in low-income housing tax credit equity through an investment by Wells Fargo, loans from Greystone, and other backing from the National Foundation for Affordable Housing Solutions.

New York-based Arco Management Corporation has taken over day-to-day operations. In February 2018, Lisa Chow, who had worked as Aimco’s property manager of the building for 10 years, departed from Arco. According to Zhang, many tenants cheered and some shed tears upon learning that Chow had left. Arco replaced Chow with Zhang, who worked second to Chow under Aimco for several years.

Even though months have passed, residents continue to talk about Chow’s tenure. chinese immigrants first arrived to Washington D.C. in the 1850s. Many lived along the south side of Pennsylvania Avenue NW until the city announced in the 1930s a wide-scale project to build the Federal Triangle government complex and other municipal buildings. The displaced community relocated to establish Chinatown between 5th and 7th streets NW. In 1976, the city threatened the community once again by demolishing much of 7th Street between H and F streets NW to develop the Metro. Then, the city announced plans to build Washington Convention Center in the heart of Chinatown at 7th and H streets, echoing the events of 40 years earlier. Residents of Chinatown organized to protest the displacement, and successfully pushed the convention center two blocks west to 9th and H streets NW. (The Washington Convention Center was eventually demolished in 2004 and replaced by the Walter E. Washington Convention Center at Mount Vernon Square.)

As a sort of concession after this fight, the city announced in the late 1970s that it was planning on constructing an apartment build-

ing for Chinese immigrants. An organization called the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association—which has chapters nationwide, most notably in San Francisco and New York City—was watching closely and plotting moves. Led by Chinese immigrants with business acumen, the CCBA sent an applica-

tion to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to acquire the ground underneath what is now Wah Luck House, and were granted ownership of the half acre.

Since March 31, 1981, the CCBA has leased the ground below the building to property management companies who own and operate the

actual building.

It is Wah Luck’s ground lease that makes the property unique in the world of multifamily real estate. Carolyn Gallaher, professor of geography at American University and author of The Politics of Staying Put: Condo Conversion and Tenant Right-to-Buy in Washington, DC, says, “While not unheard of, it’s quite uncommon for a building to have a ground lease.” She explains that a ground lease is often unattractive to a prospective buyer. “Most developers would ask themselves—why invest so many resources into a property that does not fully belong to you?”

Thirty-eight years remain on the ground lease between the Wah Luck’s current owner and the CCBA. Wong has served as chairwoman of the CCBA and has worked closely with the organization for years. She tells City Paper that one of the members of the CCBA, a doctor, will be opening an office on the first floor of Wah Luck after renovations are complete. She also says that per Fannie Mae’s request for security, she has negotiated a possible 20-year extension of the ground lease, but that in 2056, “CCBA has the right to return Wah Luck to the community.”

Many of the current senior residents of Wah Luck House will have died by 2056. Wong says that she has promised the CCBA that the building will always stay affordable for whoever will apply to move into the building.

Residents of Wah Luck who spoke with City Paper feel less secure about their future.

Building tenants learned in March 2017 that Aimco had drawn an initial contract selling the building to Wong’s group, Wah Luck House Preservation LLC. Given the sale announcement, the tenants themselves had first right of refusal through a D.C. law called the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act, or TOPA. Tenant associations, especially in large apartment buildings, are able to interview and select a developer of their choosing. Developers, for their part, often know which buildings are going up for sale and compete heavily to buy them, either by wooing tenant associations or looking for ways to circumvent TOPA all together.

Wong says she was “nervous” throughout the TOPA process but she knew that “there were no other buyers.”

Three Wah Luck residents tell City Paper that in March 2017, Wong spoke at a large tenant meeting and made a verbal promise that as owner of the building, she would make sure all residents could stay in the building and continue to participate in Section 8 and furthermore, that if she were “to break any of her promises” she would personally pay each tenant $500,000. Later that month, she sent out a notarized memo explaining her support of the Chinese community in Chinatown which again stated a “monetary guarantee” of $500,000. In this memo, Wong wrote that this guarantee demonstrates her commitment to keeping the building affordable.

The December 2017 Memorandum of Agreement between tenants and Wah Luck House Preservation LLC does not state that Wong will give any financial compensation

to tenants.

Residents have different interpretations of what Wong’s $500,000 guarantee meant.

One tenant tells City Paper that Wong’s guarantee “is real because her document was notarized.” She posits that many tenants continue to think that Wong’s notarized memo is a financial guarantee for them. Another tenant says, “There are some residents that still believe in Wong’s guarantee and there are some that do not.” For him, it was important to take this deal because he wanted to stay in an affordable building. He acknowledges, however, the brutal reality that Wah Luck House could be sold again after renovations are completed. “It’s always going to be about business,” he says.

Wong says that many residents were skeptical of her monetary guarantee, telling her that “she would go bankrupt” if she had to pay out residents. When asked why she offered it then both verbally and in the notarized memo, she says she wanted to demonstrate how “serious” she was about keeping the building affordable.

The majority of Wah Luck’s residents receive housing vouchers that are tied to their units. Individuals or families who receive these vouchers are asked to spend up to only one third of their income on rent, which is imperative for Wah Luck tenants, especially because about 75 percent of them are seniors who live solely on social security and other income assistance.

Like many federally subsidized housing complexes, Wah Luck House has a long waitlist for its 153 units. Several of the building’s current tenants waited years before receiving word that they could move in.

As Aimco’s property manager at Wah Luck for more than a decade, Chow managed this waitlist. For applicants desperately seeking affordable housing, Chow was the de facto gatekeeper to these coveted units. Chow also controlled access to limited parking spots and unit repairs, and served as the on-the-ground liaison to Aimco and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which administers the voucher program. (Chow acknowledged her past employment at Wah Luck in an email, but did not return City Paper’s requests for comment.)

Chow has been gone from Wah Luck for about eight months now, but several residents will only speak about her anonymously because they fear retribution or removal from their apartment units. Their complaints against Chow range from verbal abuse to failure to respond to maintenance requests to bafflement over the application process to get into the building.

Tenant Joanna Xu says that she developed breathing problems and severe allergies from her apartment unit. She explains that she repeatedly asked Chow to ask Aimco to replace the carpet in her unit and to eradicate persistent mold in her kitchen. According to Zhang, the current property manager, Chow always insisted that Aimco did not have the money to do routine renovations. Only in 2015, when Xu says she procured a doctor’s note from Howard University Hospital confirming her breath-

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ing problems, did Chow agree to replace the unit’s carpeting. Asked why Xu continues to live at Wah Luck, she says that she was on the waitlist for a unit for 10 years and she simply cannot afford to move elsewhere.

Another tenant similarly recounts how building management under Aimco failed to replace the carpet in her unit after many years.

“Under old management, residents did not feel like they could complain or ask for anything,” she says.

Xu also spoke about her multiyear fight to secure a parking spot. Her job requires her to work late on Sunday nights and return to Wah Luck at around 2 a.m. From 2014 to 2017, she says she repeatedly asked Chow if she could rent a parking spot building to limit the amount of time she spent walking alone at night. In 2017, Xu was upset to learn that a man who had just moved into the building had received a parking spot.

A different anonymous tenant lived in Wah Luck House from 2007 to 2011 with his wife and daughter in an overcrowded one-bedroom apartment. He repeatedly asked Chow for a two-bedroom apartment but she denied his requests. Eventually, he made the difficult decision to move out to give his family more space, but has since gotten back on the waitlist to try to move back into the building.

A third anonymous tenant—we’ll call her Ms. Liang—lives nearby in Museum Square, another affordable apartment building. (It is larger than Wah Luck, and has the second highest concentration of Chinese immigrant residents in the neighborhood.) Liang has been on the waitlist for Wah Luck House for years; she wants to live in the same building as her elderly mother.

Liang tells City Paper that in October 2017, Chow called to tell her that she could move into Wah Luck. Liang was overjoyed and immediately prepared all of the move-in paperwork and started to pack her belongings. But Chow failed to follow up with instructions and details. Frustrated, Liang went to Wah Luck House to visit Chow and ask for her move-in date. She says that Chow shooed Liang away angrily and threatened to call the police.

A Wah Luck applicant City Paper spoke with has a similar story. She says that she applied for a unit in 2015, and that Chow called and asked her to come in to fill out paperwork to prove her low-income status. The prospective tenant complied, and recalls that in November 2017, Chow called to inform her that she could move in to the building. But Chow never followed up with more directions. The woman says she continued to call Chow and regularly visit Wah Luck, but eventually Chow told her to stop contacting her. “I felt deceived,” the prospective tenant says. A year later, this past summer, she inquired again, and learned from Zhang, the current property manager, that her application was not in the Wah Luck database.

She is now back on the waitlist.

Lifen Peng wants to sue Aimco for mismanagement. On Feb. 3, 2012, Peng married a Wah Luck resident. The two were already living together in an apartment there. But she says that Chow refused to register her as a proper resi-

dent of the building.

Shortly after their marriage, Peng reports, her new husband became verbally and physically abusive and at times would lock her out of the apartment. Peng says she spent many nights crying and sleeping on a sofa in the lobby, and Chow refused to give her entry to the unit. By March 2014, Peng sought a civil protective order against her husband and then filed for divorce. The court order prohibited him from being near Peng, who ultimately had to vacate the building and leave her community of friends. Her husband subsequently died, and his apartment unit was filled immediately. Peng is seeking legal representation to help her return to Wah Luck.

Regarding tenant and applicant complaints during the period that Chow managed Wah Luck, a spokesperson from Aimco says, in an emailed statement: “Each applicant received a copy of the resident selection criteria describing waitlist management. All HUD procedures were followed with regard to waitlist management and monitored by the regional property manager, Aimco’s compliance department and HUD’s Performance Based Contract Administrator.” The spokesperson goes on to say, “We take all resident comments very seriously and follow up on all. In addition, a formal grievance procedure was posted at the property. The grievance procedure provided the names and contact information for all levels of management, including the regional property manager and an Aimco Senior Vice President, along with the HUD account executive.”

For more than a decade, the main office of Wah Luck House has had a sign on its wall that says “No Cash Accepted.”

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The tenants City Paper interviewed report that they have never seen or spoken with HUD or any additional representative from Aimco.

Mayor Muriel Bowser has been known to make occasional visits to Wah Luck. Bowser was due to make a speech this past February at the building’s annual Chinese New Year party. New building owners Wong and Agetstein attended and sat at a table in the front of the room with members of the CCBA. There were other outside guests: a camera crew from Fannie Mae, who was there to shoot a promotional video for Fannie Mae and Greystone, Fannie Mae’s lending partner on the sale. A camera man and a boom operator captured a staged scene of older women playing mahjong.

Bowser never showed up to the event, and when news of her absence trickled through the crowd, the tenants packed up their cardboard cartons of food, walked to the elevator, and ascended through the building.

Today, renovation of the building’s interior is moving quickly, though Wah Luck’s concrete facade may never be touched. In January 2013, the DC Preservation League sent an application to the DC Office of Planning’s Historic Preservation Review Board calling for an expansion of the boundaries of the Historic Downtown District. This proposal includes Chinatown in the expansion and states that Wah Luck House must be historically preserved for “its architectural design, visual presence, and continuing role in the preservation of Chinatown’s ethnic character.” The Historic Preservation Review Board has not yet set a hearing date to hear the proposal.

Estimates on the number of remaining Chi-

nese or Chinese-American residents in Chinatown hover at a few hundred. Shirley Woo, director of the Chinatown Service Center, tells City Paper that in the fiscal year from October 2016 to September 2017 she provided social services to 708 Chinese individuals and she believes that “most do live around here.” Many of those who don’t live in Wah Luck are nearby in Museum Square, where a diverse tenant group, including African, Latinx, and Chinese immigrants, as well as born citizens, have successfully fought displacement in recent years.

How much money do the various stakeholders of Wah Luck House stand to make in the future? The case of Museum Square provides some insight. A few years ago, Museum Square’s owner, Bush Companies, gave the tenants there an opportunity to purchase the building for an incredible $250 million, a number that Bush calculated based on “the future value of the property, after redevelopment.” But the two cases are not parallel. Museum Square, with about 800 units, is more than 5 times bigger than Wah Luck.

Wong tells City Paper that after the renovation is complete, she estimates that the building will be worth over $70 million. When asked about the value of the land underneath the building, Wong says with a chuckle, “CCBA will never sell that land.”

The residents of Wah Luck are aware of the value of their building. Xu tells City Paper that “she was praying to God to give her a place to live,” before she moved in to Wah Luck. She reports that she was on the waitlist for 10 years before finally getting a unit in 2007. Despite the many challenges of living in Wah Luck, she considers herself “very, very lucky” to call it home.

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Sought the Farm

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By Laura Hayes Marcus roberson has a vision. He wants to grow crops on an empty lot in the Kingman Pa rk-R o s e da le neighborho o d, close enough to Miner Elementary School to hear children during recess. “If we can get to the kids, we can get to the parents and touch the community,” he says.

Roberson is the co-owner of Woodbox Farms in Alexandria and graduated from Arcadia Farm’s 2017 Arcadia Veteran Farmer Program. The Southwest D.C. resident is submitting a plan to the city, hoping to be awarded the 10,000 square feet of public land to use as

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In addition to engaging the elementary school through educational programming, Roberson imagines creating a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program that relies on cyclists to deliver produce to neighbors.

He was among a handful of likely bidders at a site visit on Oct. 24.

Earlier this month, the Department of General Services put out a request for proposals for two plots of land totaling 20,000 square feet as a part of D.C.’s Urban Farming Land Lease Program. Site one is on the 1600 block of Kramer St. NE between 16th and 17th streets NE in Ward 6. Site two is at Longfellow and 9th streets NW in Brightwood Park.

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Neighbors have questions as the city solicits proposals for plots destined to become urban farms in their backyards.

Security Act of 2014 was one of the city’s first big steps in achieving its goal of a more sustainable future. The two-pronged legislation offers tax incentives to open up private land for urban farming while simultaneously identifying empty lots owned by the city for the same purpose. The former has proven challenging.

As for the latter, some question why it took the city so long to convert District-owned land into fertile ground.

“We applaud the city for moving forward on opening up more city parcels for urban agriculture,” says DC Greens Executive Director Lauren Shweder Biel. DC Greens has operated one of the city’s most significant urban farms, the K Street Farm, since 2010. But that site, which abuts the Walker-Jones Edu-

cation Campus, is set to become a Pepco substation in 2019.

“We think having thriving green spaces in our city is a key component to building a healthy city. At the same time, it’s been surprising how long it has taken for the city to actualize the legislation that was put in place in 2014, and these goals have been on the books since 2010 through Sustainable DC.” Sustainable DC is a city plan to make D.C. “the healthiest, greenest, most livable city in the nation.”

Competition for the two open sites is expected to be steep, and site one, on Kramer Street NE, comes with issues. That site was slated to become affordable housing, but the city determined it wasn’t appropriate for development because of the location of certain utilities, according to Anthony DeLorenzo, the urban planning project manager at DGS. Preliminary testing indicates that the soil at site one has high levels of arsenic. The individual or organization awarded the land will be responsible for further testing and determining how to farm the land safely, such as installing raised beds. Roberson is contemplating an innovative geo-dome.

Applicants must have experience in agriculture and be District residents (or have an organization that’s incorporated in D.C.). The city is open to nonprofit or for-profit proposals. Leases will be granted for a minimum of five years and a maximum of 13 years, and the awardee is not responsible for paying for the lease. Awardees must fund the build-out, pay utilities, and foot the bill for other operating costs.

Proposals are due Nov. 21 and DeLorenzo says he hopes the winners get up and running in 2019. He will review the applications with a representative from the DC Food Policy Council and a few DGS employees from different departments. When asked if anyone with urban agriculture experience is included in the evaluator panel, DeLorenzo asserts, “I’m knowledgeable and qualified to review them.”

Criteria include the cost of the proposal, timeline, site design, and business plan. But evaluators will weigh community engagement and community benefit the highest at a combined total of 30 points out of 100. It’s these critical components that motivated Sondra Phillips-Gilbert, the commissioner of ANC 6A07, to get involved. She will observe the judging process.

“My job is to make sure there’s the community engagement piece and that we have a say in who our new neighbor will be,” Phillips-Gilbert says. She wants applicants to introduce themselves to neighbors. “They need to tell us who they are, what they intend to do, and

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what they want to offer.”

Phillips-Gilbert feels that her constituents are confused, even after a community meeting with DeLorenzo and about 30 neighbors.

“There’s a lot of uncertainty—I don’t think the idea of urban farming is really understood,” she says. “I made it very clear to government officials that the process has to be more clear.”

At the site visit on Oct. 24, DeLorenzo admitted as much. “At first there was a little bit of confusion as to whether this was a commercial farm or a community garden,” he told the group. “Distinguishing those two took a little bit of massaging with the ANC commissioner.” He then recommended that applicants seek a letter of support from Phillips-Gilbert as a part of their application packages.

Phillips-Gilbert is curious about how the immediate community will benefit, how neighbors can engage with the project, whether the awardee will hire from the community, and who will have access to the produce grown on the site. She describes her jurisdiction as a mixed community with retirees and newcomers and a range of income levels, including several housing facilities with low-income residents receiving SNAP benefits.

In 2017, local urban farmer Brian Massey penned an article for Civil Eats titled “D.C.’s Urban Farms Wrestle With Gentrification and Displacement.” He grappled with how many urban farming organizations have noble goals of addressing food injustice in city settings while the populations they hope to serve are simultaneously being forced out of their neighborhoods. He worries that longterm residents, particularly people of color, end up feeling that “urban agriculture is not for them.”

“I want to make sure that whoever comes in understands that if you’re going to be forprofit and you’re getting a lease for five years, that the community should get something,” Phillips-Gilbert continues. “There should be educational programs and opportunities for families to learn about nutrition and learn how to garden.”

If the awardee is a for-profit business, it’s not necessarily a negative, according to Shweder Biel. “A lot of the intention around including for-profit farmers in the original legislation was making sure that farmers from marginalized communities were able to enter the farming economy and we were maximizing city land to support long-term residents by using farming as a tool for economic stability,” she says.

Sam Fitz, the president of for-profit business ANXO Cider, is gunning for site two in Brightwood Park. “The lot is between the cidery and my house,” he says. “I’ve been trying to put apples on it for three years then this RFP came out, which is great.” The ANXO Ci-

dery & Tasting Room is located at 711 Kennedy St. NW. “We would ultimately want to use the apples to make cider, but it would also be about creating a community space offering neighbors and local schools the opportunity to experience urban agriculture and connect with nature in their own neighborhood” he says.

Fitz is in close contact with ANC 4D01 Commissioner Nancy E. Roth, who thinks Fitz is a good choice. “Sam has a record of hiring from the community,” she says. “I feel sure he would use it in a good way.”

Roth describes site two as a lot surrounded by alleys and points out that there are more like it in the neighborhood. “They’re a no-man’s land,” she says. “They collect trash. That area is a dumping site for unwanted furniture and all kinds of crap. It’s just sitting there. It will only be an asset compared to what it is now.”

While enthusiastic about the future urban farm, Roth is disappointed in the level of outreach and transparency from the city. “The least the city can do, with these plots of land that it’s managing and not maintaining very well, should absolutely be soliciting residents’ input on what can be done there.”

Outreach is a little trickier in Roth’s corner of the city. “It’s complicated by the fact that there’s no commissioner there,” she says.

“There has to be some sort of plan on the part of the commission if they don’t have a representative.” Roth would take on the role, but she’s stepping down from her current seat. She wonders who will hold community meetings, disseminate flyers, and otherwise reach neighbors about the urban farm proposals.

At least one group is planning to apply for both sites. Compost Cab founder Jeremy Brosowsky says, “We plan to submit to both sites and we think that the network effect is powerful. They have more value together than they would separately.”

Compost Cab has been around since 2010 and has specialized in composting as a puzzle piece in a larger, more sustainable food system. Brosowsky says his plans for the site go beyond turning food waste into nutrient-rich soil to include actual urban farming.

“We think we’ve gotten good at designing systems that are sustainable financially and environmentally, and D.C. is the perfect city to prove these models,” he says. “We’re thrilled the D.C. government is making the land available and doing what it needs to facilitate urban agriculture.”

If applicants lose out this time around, there will likely be opportunities in the future. “It’s just the beginning,” DeLorenzo says. “We’re identifying at least five additional acres by 2032 for urban farming production on public land with our partner agencies. And, we’re mandated to do an inventory scan yearly.”

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The Sandwich: Philly Cheesesteak

The snaking lines for Call Your Mother seem to indicate that D.C. is a bagel-starved city.

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Where: Philly Wing Fry at Whole Foods Market, 800 New Jersey Ave. SE Price: $12 Stuffings: Dry-aged beef, smoked provolone, roasted garlic mayo, pickled pearl onions, caramelized onions Bread: Lyon Bakery banh mi bun Thickness: 2.5 inches

American Son, Chef Tim Ma’s flagship restaurant inside Eaton Workshop, opens, serving tofu gnocchi and other refined, plant-based fare.

Bourbon, the bar that helped hook D.C. on brown liquor, closes in Adams Morgan after 12 years.

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Price: $14.50

The Dish: Pisco y Nazca’s Cholo Benedicto Where To Get It: 1823 L St. NW, on the weekend brunch menu

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A casual seafood restaurant from the team behind Tony & Joe’s and Ivy City Smokehouse is the first restaurant to announce it’s coming to Buzzard Point.

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What It Is: A classic brunch staple—eggs benedict—gets an overhaul at Pisco y Nazca by way of Lima. This new downtown eatery, which bills itself as a Peruvian gastrobar and cevicheria, serves up sweet plantain cakes, topped with two poached eggs doused in queso fresco, hollandaise sauce, and pork belly chicharron.

How It Tastes: The sweetness of the plantain cakes balance nicely with a rich, creamy, and cheesy hollandaise sauce. Meanwhile, the fried pork bel-

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ly and soft-poached eggs give this dish a salty and savory component. Add in a few fresh greens and veggies—red onion, cilantro, and chopped tomato—and suddenly this weekend brunch special beats any other benedict in town.

Why It Helps: The starch, protein, and fattiness of this dish serve as a defense against any hangover cramps or pains you might experience. But don’t forget to pair it with a drink that Peruvians say will remedy any hangover. Leche de tigre—aka tiger’s milk—is a spicy shrimp seafood ceviche, usually served in a shot glass. It’s on the menu at Pisco y Nazca ($3), and it goes down quick to tame the belly.

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Pros: One major qualm about cheesesteaks is how heavy they feel. The rich combination of beef and cheese can sit like a brick in your gut, but the acidity of the pickled onions brightens each bite.

The airy texture of the mayo also lightens the sandwich’s load.

Cons: For $12, this 7-inch sandwich feels small and dominated by bread instead of fillings. The roasted garlic flavor doesn’t really come through in the mayo, and the caramelized onions, chopped into small pieces, don’t give off much flavor either. Roasted mushrooms could add complexity, but they’ll cost you an extra $4.

Sloppiness level (1 to 5): 1. A typical steak and cheese might leak meat juices and stay attached to your mouth via long pulls of provolone. This one is a little bit drier, but the upside is that it leaves your hands and plate clean, making it relatively easy to transport.

Overall score (1 to 5): 3. While certain additions make this sandwich taste more exciting than your typical sub shop offering, it lacks the juiciness that can make those sandwiches so delectable. If a traditionally sloppy steak and cheese is what you crave, you’ll want to pass on this one.

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On her epic and ambitious new album, D.C.-area singer-songwriter Marian McLaughlin reckons with climate change in an intense musical survey of environmentalism.

By Justin Weber We Worry about a lot of things these days—rampant corruption, bigotry, and inequality occupy a good deal more brain space than we would like. Most depressing is that planet-altering climate change may come to end us all as we try to solve all these other crises. It all can feel hopeless and soul-crushing. It nearly was for Marian McLaughlin.

“I asked my friend who studies climate change, ‘What can I do?’ and she told me, ‘It all doesn’t matter. We really need some huge shifts to slow down these gears,’” McLaughlin tells me one evening as we chat sitting on a park bench outside the U.S. Capitol.

“It makes me sad so I wrote songs about it,” she says Many of those songs make up the D.C.-area songwriter’s third album, the 18-track long song cycle Lake Accotink, released last month. McLaughlin channels her environmental

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worries into urgent and emotional songs.

“I started writing it as a heartbreak album—like a heartbreak of what is happening to our planet,” she says.

Lake Accotink uses McLaughlin’s heartbreak as a launching point for a full-spectrum survey of environmentalism, from the human flaws that led us astray to a very deep appreciation for nature. It’s a reflection on the crisis itself, of course, but also on the root causes of climate change and on what will be lost on this planet because of it.

McLaughLin greW up near Lake Accotink in Northern Virginia. When winter came, she could see the lake from her house through the bare trees.

“When I go there I feel this deeper connection, a sense of familiarity,” she says, “I thought I would name [the album] Lake Accotink to pay tribute to a place I spent a lot of time.”

Her family would take her to the lake as a child. Her mother would point out the different forms of flora and fauna to her, patiently naming each. McLaughlin shares her mother’s influ-

ence throughout the album—some songs are named for very specific plants, and her detailed lyrics act like a catalog of sorts.

She explicitly describes one of these trips during the final song, “Of the Lake and Land,” which acts as a kind of historical record as it paints a vivid picture.

These moments might feel exhaustive, but McLaughlin’s earnest joy shades the observations. In conversation, her exuberance for the natural world beams. “[Nature] fills me with wonder and curiosity and appreciation,” she says. “Even just walking over here, past the Smithsonian, and seeing these pollinator gardens bursting with Monarch butterflies right now. I was like, ‘Wow! This is, like, food for my spirit,’” she exclaims.

McLaughlin puts aside her worry and breathes deeply throughout the record. “Grayson Highlands,” named after a state park along the Appalachian Trail in the southwestern part of Virginia, is a breezy and appreciative tune she sings about seeing things from a different perspective. Her joy is endless because nature is never quite the same. washingtoncitypaper.com november 2, 2018 17

CPArts “You could go on the same trail multiple times a week and have a different experience based on the lighting of the trail ... what you hear or, if it rained a lot, maybe there’s more mushrooms popped up and you’re like ‘What kind of mushroom is this? I’ve never seen it. There’s like seven different mushrooms I’ve never seen before!’” she says.

McLaughlin first remembers thinking about environmentalism because of her aunt, who was a Sister of Charity.

“Ever since I was a kid, she was trying to make me aware of the beauty of being outside and how we need to take care of it,” she says.

At 13, McLaughlin wrote poems expressing concern for the ways in which the modern world was overwhelming the natural one, especially highways.

“I don’t know what kicked that off. I just remember being in eighth grade and writing poems like that,” she says, “That feeling has never truly left so I’m trying to express it more in a richer form with these songs.”

On a recent trip back to Lake Accotink, McLaughlin noticed that the trails were starting to be paved. That overwhelming feeling crept back in and so she began to sing what would become “Modus Operandi,” one of the album’s most striking admonishments of the cycle of destruction people perpetuate.

“The doe and the buck and their little fawns/ Have run out of luck so they’re mowing our lawns,” she sings, “Then we call out the archer for deer departure/ May his clear precision prevent more collisions.”

throughout the record, McLaughlin makes it clear that culpability lies with humans. “Open a Window” calls out digital culture for severing our natural connections (“Before the internet lived in my pocket/ Before we all had avatars/ There was an art to telling time”). “Hold the Space” gives a terrifying and tense sound to the confrontation between Water Protectors and police in North Dakota. While much of the album features acoustic strings and winds, for these moments, McLaughlin leans on an electric guitar to channel her anger.

The irony of it all is that Lake Accotink, the catalyst of McLaughlin’s environmental values, is itself man-made. It was built by the Army in 1944 before it was purchased by the Fairfax Park Authority in 1960. The lake is also in danger as water run-off fills it with sediment, something worsened by people and the development that surrounds it.

“I feel like the way to save it is to stop doing everything we do: mowing lawns, driving cars, building homes, expanding the beltway around the lake,” McLaughlin says.

While it wasn’t intentional, it’s a perfect example for the overarching themes of the album: It keeps the album locally rooted, even when McLaughlin is singing about Amazon expanding its empire while “the other Amazon becomes a pyre.”

Her thematic ambition holds steady because of the consistently compelling orchestration and pace. McLaughlin collaborates with Ethan Foote, who writes the scores to support her songs.

Her writing process goes something like this: She starts by walking and writing her stream-of-consciousness thoughts, which

form the clay to mold into lyrics. McLaughlin’s musical training was heavy on intuition and light on music theory, which gives her writing a natural quality despite the heavy subject matter. Foote matches these intuitions with strings, winds, and sound effects that weave and evolve around McLaughlin’s singing.

“It kind of reminds me of website design,” she says, “I’m doing the front end and he’s showing me the back end, the coding for it.”

The musical themes of Lake Accotink don’t start and stop with each track. Sometimes a song will halt and completely shift directions a couple of times before it’s over. And at other times, themes will stretch across multiple songs. Styles seamlessly shift from quirky baroque chamber folk to tense rock to quiet piano ballads without whiplash. All of the changing colors and tones feel as natural as breathing.

“When I’m outside, engaging with nature, I feel like I’m experiencing something that’s full of truth,” McLaughlin says, “If I’m on a hike, enjoying clouds passing by, observing an insect, listening to bird calls … these observations and interactions nourish my spirit.“ An 18-song long album about environmentalism may get pre-judged as a preachy bore—its themes are indeed serious and urgently stated—but McLaughlin’s Lake Accotink is one of the most ambitious and fulfilling local releases of the year. Give it a chance and it just may nourish your spirit as well.

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Illyria, or What You Will

Illyria, or What You Will

By Jonelle Walker and Mitchell Hébert Directed by Mitchell Hébert At Gunston Arts Center to Nov. 18 Relocating TwelfTh NighT to an early’80s Manhattan disco is a more comfortable fit than setting it in an airport terminal, as Ethan McSweeny’s lavishly budgeted Shakespeare Theatre Company production did 11 months ago. WSC Avant Bard has never had that kind of dough to throw around, but the grimier aesthetic suits their free adaptation of Shakespeare’s most mature comedy—one that turns Arlington’s Gunston Arts Center (aka Gunston Middle School) into a den of dissolution from the time just before AIDS hit and people figured out coke was not, in fact, the real thing.

Props designer Liz Long has even dressed the show’s various stages with magazines from the period: Look, there’s a Rolling Stone with John Belushi on the cover.

Playwright Jonelle Walker, who previously remixed The Taming of the Shrew, and veteran actor/director Mitchell Hébert, have shrunk Twelfth Night to a svelte 95 minutes, amplifying the play’s already substantial queerness quotient and casting two actors who little resemble one another, Ezra Tozian and Montana Monardes, as the supposedly identical siblings Viola and Sebastian.

Illyria is now a nightclub run by Orsino. To play Orsino, Matthew Sparacino has grown a mustache and soul patch to complement the Tony Montana white suit costume designer Kristen P. Ahern has given him. Frank Britton’s Feste is a DJ in a mustard-colored kaftan and eyeliner, trying to cure his boss’ lovesickness by spinning Giorgio Moroder and Diana Ross 12-inchers while demanding, “How dost thou like this tune?” Fabian is reimagined as a drag queen who drops in to sing a torch song periodically, with Miss Kitty LyLynx doing the honors.

As Olivia, a singer with a residency at the club, Dani Stoller is more at ease with the surviving Elizabethan verse than many of her cohorts. To watch her negotiate the play’s arbitrary pivots into modern speech and its atleast-as-daunting variances in tone—a characteristic that’s present in the First Folio iteration of Twelfth Night, too, to be fair—is to wish that more of the company were on or near her level.

But former Avant Bard Artistic Director Christopher Henley perusades as the priggish scold Malvolio. His humiliation and harsh punishment in the original play after he’s tricked into revealing his desire for Olivia are here made over to a sunnier fate.

The less experienced actors in the troupe are rightly assigned the purely comic parts of

ernan McGowan) claim of sovereignty over France inspires a striking visual gag as members of Henry’s court are literally tied up in the lengthy legal brief. The stylized walks of commedia’s zannis, or tricksters, satirize the protocols of the courts of both Henry and the decadent French royals and the civilized facade of those sending men and boys into the breach to kill and be killed.

Henry V may have inspired a variety of interpretations over the centuries because Shakespeare has given us something of a cipher, and McGowan’s Hal acknowledges that even as he attempts to conform to a model of monarchical rectitude. This is a king who can in one scene threaten atrocities against the citizens of Harfleur that in our era would result in a war crimes tribunal, while a few scenes later order the hanging of Bardolph

Maria and the wastrels Andrew Aguecheek (a cokehead in a leather vest) and Sir Toby Belch, attacking their roles with enthusiasm.

When these characters cross pollinate their Twelfth Night verse with little fragments of Hamlet or The Winter’s Tale, too, it has the same fun trainspotting effect as when rappers quote their own rhymes. So there’s plenty of novelty, but little of the dread one might expect, knowing the horrors that would hit the LGBT community especially hard in the Reagan era. Twelfth Night is beloved not just for its joy, but for its melancholy. Take that away and what you’re left with is a diverting evening, one that would be a perfect fit for a space with a bar, like Studio Theatre’s Stage 4. Too bad you can’t serve Long Island Iced Teas in a middle school. —Chris Klimek 2700 South Lang St., Arlington. $10–$40.

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the originaL King of Commedia Henry V

By William Shakespeare Directed by Paul Reisman At Gallaudet University Elstad Auditorium to Nov. 11 audience membeRs file in through the stage left wing at the Elstad Auditorium, and take their seats on the stage. To their left are the heavy proscenium curtains. Costumes hang on clothing racks. Poles stand upright in a bucket. Masks and slapsticks, the most basic instruments of commedia dell’arte, rest in a wheeled cabinet. Six bickering actors and their

Henry V American Sign Language interpreter, Lindsey D. Snyder, burst through the doorway, trading lines from the chorus of Henry V. As soon they finish, they’re donning doublets, frocks, masks, and hats.

While Shakespeare and his contemporaries were writing for the London stage, on the continent, Italian comedy was all the rage—consequently, commedia, the highly physical, masked style that Faction of Fools specializes in, provides a fascinating means to recontextualize the Bard’s works.

The commoners, not surprisingly, lend themselves well to the ribald treatment with the early rivalry between Pistol (Ben Lauer) and Nym (Julie Weir) over Pistol’s wife, Mistress Quickly (Casey Johnson-Pasqua) as well as Jesse Terrill’s pedantic Captain Fluellen, and Johnson-Pasqua’s officious French emissary, Montjoy.

Were one to imagine a 15th century in which comedians were free to lampoon the affairs of state before a paying audience, it might look like this. The Archbishop of Canterbury’s (Terrill) reading off the reasoning behind the Church’s backing of Henry’s (Ki-

(Terrill) for looting.

Whereas productions that focus on the realities of war often make the wooing of Princess Katharine (Weir) seem unexpected, the dark slapstick of this Battle of Agincourt allows this happy ending to come off effectively. Shallow King Hal just wants to woo when war is won; bawdy Queen Isabel (Hannah D. Sweet) is hot to trot now that the victorious Brits are in the palace; and so the princess’ English lessons, taught by her attendant Alice (JohnsonPasqua, who performs all her roles in ASL, thus making the normally bilingual scene trilingual) seem like a preparation for his eventual arrival.

Director Paul Reisman’s ability to create an epic scale production with a cast of six playing over 40 roles is particularly impressive.

While much of that is the consequence of having actors skilled in the art of masks and physical theater, it is also the result of the inventive ways the actors transition from one character to the next. (There’s a thrill seeing the trick by which Sweet transforms from the Dauphin to the late Falstaff ’s page.) At other times there is a sense of intimacy when the actors change

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costumes and masks in front of the audience to the accompaniment of a kazoo.

The commedia treatment, when applied to one of Shakespeare’s histories, will upset some purists. However this is one of his most popular plays, so there will always be another company ready to stage a more conventional production. The Fools are not replacing convention, but broadening our understanding of it. The only question is if these comedians do so artfully. The answer is yes.

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Muse Clues Sing to Me Now

By Iris Dauterman Directed by Jenny McConnell Frederick At Atlas Performing Arts Center to Nov. 18 What if an overworked Greek goddess needed an intern? That’s the instantly appealing premise of Iris Dauterman’s deeply imagined Sing to Me Now—a healing work of comic art having its world premiere at Rorschach Theatre. The script was plucked from more than 70 entries submitted to Rorschach’s annual Magic in Rough Spaces New Play Lab this past spring and developed into a full performance.

Dauterman’s language is alive, street, funny, and rife with insightful zingers among the originally realized characters. Her quotable lines and inventive metaphors keep the faith in these dark times delightfully, like opening jar after jar of fireflies into the night. If there’s no hope out there, this artist makes a gift of it for you.

Sing to Me Now will help those tired from too much suffering to take heart. Its delicately revealed depiction of unresolved trauma and grief is greatly moving. Its argument for why making art matters gathers force as the plot unfolds.

Calliope (Chloe Mikala), the immortal muse of epic poetry and the last surviving sibling of her eight sisters, is burned out from answering pleas for creative ideas from artists through the ages. To impose order on her messy office, crammed to the rafters with unanswered letters, she hires an intrepid young woman, Yankee (Tori Boutin, who digs deep for peaks of feeling and gives her all).

Mikala’s Callie has the sharp-tongued swagger of a boss lady and the weariness of a survivor hiding heartbreak. Morpheus (Erik Harrison, who exudes laid-back charm and abiding goodness), the god of dreams, is her loyal best friend who also begins a romance

with human Yankee. Mnemosyne (Cam Magee, with magnetic gravitas), the goddess of memory and Callie’s mother, drifts into dementia but comes to for lucid moments of love and frustration. For reasons that become clear, Callie hates Hades (Ian Armstrong, sardonic and excellently louche), god of the underworld. Desirée Chappelle and Jonathan Del Palmer add to the vim of a well-picked cast.

Rorschach’s co-Founding Artistic Director Jenny McConnell Frederick directs Sing to Me Now. In charged scenes between various pairs of actors, I could feel startlingly pure emotions leaping out from beneath their skin.

With hard work and a sense of humor, set designer Swedian Lie has transformed Lab Theatre II’s black-box space. From the handbuilt “river” lined with poppies that cleaves the room, to an elevator grate that demarcates the underworld and allows Hades to make dramatic entrances, every area of the stage is used economically and pops visually.

The props include a replica of a Duchamp urinal sculpted from foam and painted. The costumes are contemporary with an edge— Callie wears a ripped mesh skirt and black lipstick—but wink at Greek mythology with laurel wreaths.

The play took a while to feel believable at the performance I attended. But soon, the theatrical ingredients combined and the actors’ chemistries combusted. The audience caught on, and the laughs began to land. The pacing of the denouement dragged a bit, and the play ends with a slightly too clever metaphor with the same actor in a dual role, which I won’t spoil here. It may need refining to get to the quick of what is meant.

As Mo tells Yankee, who has taken this unpaid internship while trying to be a lawyer, despite her student loans from college: “Whatever you are out there doesn’t matter. I can only see the inside of your head. And you have the mind of an artist.”

Dauterman is a young playwright from San Luis Obispo, California, who now lives in D.C. Her taste is exquisitely tuned to good ideas, and they fall from her fingertips (like when Yankee suggests “a sandcastle that lasts forever”). Her burgeoning understanding of the complexities of art, love, and pain is corralled by the inexorable logic of her work. I realize this will sound naive. But I still think she’s a real-life genius.

Sing to Me Now reaches into your guts and invisibly rearranges things with a gentle hand.

You leave the performance feeling better connected to humanity, with a few tears sparkling in your eyes.

A river of wisdom, this play believes strongly that people can be saved.

—Diana Michele Yap 1333 H St. NE. $20–$30. (202) 399-7993. rorschachtheatre.com.

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BLOOD AND RUTS Suspiria

Directed by Luca Guadagnino The new SuSpiria is both too much and not enough. Director Luca Guadagnino takes the basic story from the Dario Argento horror classic, and reimagines it into something way more ambitious. This is a film with a lot on its mind: It takes on weighty themes like feminism, World War II, and forgiveness, setting it all during a tumultuous episode of late 20th century German history. It is also a horror movie, with some imagery so bizarre and grotesquely beautiful that you just may admire the craft involved. Guadagnino cannot weave these threads together, so he uses bloated storytelling to compensate for his film’s identity crisis. When multiple exploding heads barely register as shocking, then something has gone awry.

Before we get to the sinister dance studio where most of the film takes place, there is a strange prologue involving a disturbed young dancer (Chloë Grace Moretz). She is aloof and belligerent, unable to articulate what ails her.

Tilda Swinton plays Josef, her elderly therapist (Swinton has played male characters before, but here she is barely recognizable under layers of impressive make-up). The dancer ultimately disappears, and the action shifts toward Susie (Dakota Johnson), who wants to audition for the same studio. Her performance captures the attention of Madame Blanc, the company leader (also played by Swinton). But Susie has no idea that the studio is also home to a coven of witches, and in the shadows they’re looking for a new leader.

Most people remember Argento’s Suspiria for its color palette. Hot red was that film’s color of choice, and when characters died off, their blood was almost pink. Guadagnino and cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, who previously worked together on Call Me By Your Name, instead prefer the drab greys of Germany in winter. This drained color adds a sense of realism, which is only amplified by news reports of Lufthansa Flight 181, a plane that was hijacked in order to negotiate the release of Baader Meinhof leaders. By combining supernatural elements with such a tumultuous period, screenwriter David Kajganich cannily suggests that true evil just might lurk under the surface of actual places. Horror movies are often self-con-

tained, but this Suspiria is of our world.

The irony is that the film’s best scenes happen inside the dance studio, with Susie and the others cut off from the outside. Johnson is a convincing dancer, and her routines combine the mid-century choreography of Martha Graham with Pina Bausch. There is an incredible scene where Guadagnino cross-cuts between Susie’s solo performance, and another dancer who is trapped in a room without doors. As Susie contorts her body, the other dancer’s body twists in cruel, inhuman ways. The suggestion here is that the coven uses Susie’s movement to torture the dancer; this mix of beauty and body horror scratches the same itch as the Argento film.

Swinton is also terrific as a teacher who demands perfection: She is not as cruel as Vincent Cassel in Black Swan, but her icy distance from her dancers creates in them a plausible desire for perfection.

Another key difference between this film and the Argento film is their runtimes. The original is just over an hour and a half, while this one is two and a half hours. Guadagnino and Kajganich pad the story with subplots, like Josef’s investigation into the disappearance of his patient, and the fissures within the coven’s middle-management. These asides do not capture the viewer’s imagination since the film relies too much on suggestion.

Suspiria looks great, raising many intriguing questions along the way, but that’s another way of saying the film can be obtuse. When Kajganich does provide answers, he borrows from history in an unearned way. Josef’s investigation, for example, stems from his failures during the Holocaust, and his genuine pain seems glib when Guadagnino juxtaposes it with withered old crones, Grand Guignol horror, and a Thom Yorke score that just sounds like throwaway Radiohead tunes.

All these threads come together in the lengthy, bizarre climax. No coven is quite complete unless they undergo a ritual where they commune with Satan or whatever, and Guadagnino knows that. What is odd about the ritual is not what happens, but how it unfolds in a lifeless way. The original Suspiria had a frenzied dream logic to its climax, while this one is more patient, even subdued. Since this sequence features the goriest, most extreme violence in the entire film, the deflated horror finally leads to a gnawing sense of disappointment.

Suspiria is a fascinating art film, one that mixes high and low culture into something that invites passionate discussion. But as a horror film, it lacks the defiance and “don’t give a fuck” mania the genre often requires.

—Alan Zilberman Suspiria opens Thursday at Regal Majestic Stadium 20 & IMAX in Silver Spring, Arclight Bethesda, and Regal Rockville Center Stadium 13. washingtoncitypaper.com november 2, 2018 21

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Myopic Grimoire Records Since forming in 2011, D.C.-based metal trio Myopic has released a number of EPs and splits with other bands, each experimenting with different points along the extreme metal spectrum. 2013’s Vacuous was a rather straightforward death metal offering, while 2014’s Beyond the Mirror’s Edge delved into rock territory. And their portion of 2014’ excellent split with Torrid Husk, Crawling Mountain Apogee, had a more black metal orientation. In other words, the worst way to describe this band is, uh, myopic.

Myopic’s forthcoming self-titled album is yet another evolution. It’s band’s fulllength debut and it represents yet another stylistic shift, this time combining elements of black, progressive, and post-metal. Centered around themes of loneliness, the album tells the story of a man travelling into the wilderness and, as bass player and vocalist Nick Leonard says, “surviving against the harsh nature of reality,” before eventually dying. It’s a heavy record. It’s a dark record. But it’s also a record that takes its time and isn’t afraid to give the listener a moment to breathe.

This is probably the album’s biggest strength—it’s a much more dynamic offering than any of the band’s previous releases. A lot

of black and death metal can be almost too oppressive (heresy, I know, for the true kvlt among us), but the fact that Myopic has moved toward more progressive and post-metal compositions, leaning in to a more atmospheric approach, makes the nearly hourlong album a pleasure from start to finish.

No w h e r e is this ap proach more apparent than in “In Exile,” a nearly 13-minute behemoth that comes at the midway point of the album. It starts slow, with guitarist/vocalist Sean Simmons and drummer Michael Brown working in tandem, Simmons’ guitar crafts a spacey atmosphere and Brown’s drumming marches listeners along toward the rest of the track. Then Leonard’s bass joins the fray anchoring the track with heavy distortion and a driving riff. Intensity slowly builds until the end of the second minute, exploding for a brief moment before abruptly returning to a variation of the first riff, this time with Leonard’s bass clean. And that’s only in the first three minutes.

Leonard’s and Simmons’ vocal styles also play heavily into the dynamics of each track.

Simmons is more of a traditional black metal vocalist, growling and snarling his way around lyrics, while Leonard opts for a booming doom metal-inspired style of clean singing. In a genre where vocal variety often comes at a premium, the mix of approaches sounds nice. The only issue is that Simmons’ vocals occasionally fade into the mix. In and of itself, that’s not a problem—and may very well have been a stylistic decision—but when the harsh vocals are sometimes in-your-face loud and barely discernible, it’s a touch jarring.

In the grand scheme of things, though, this is a small gripe. Myopic is a strong outing from start to finish, and is impressive full-length debut for a band that has spent so long refining its identity.

—Keith Mathias Grimoire Records will release Myopic on Nov. 9.

You can listen to two tracks from the album at washingtoncitypaper.com/arts.

THE COMEDY OF ERRORS

by William Shakespeare | directed by Alan Paul

“FABULOUS...plenty of hijinks with a splash of Broadway.”

–DC Theatre Scene

“COMEDIC GENIUS...a romp of pure fun.”

–MD Theatre Guide

“FUN...a rollicking good time.”

–DCist

“UPROARIOUS...this Comedy of Errors delivers with virtuosity.”

–DC Metro Theater Arts

“BRILLIANT...an evening of music, farce and folly.”

Behind enemy lines are hearts just like yours.

–The Georgetown Dish

Photo of the cast of The Comedy of Errors by Scott Suchman.

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CITYLIST Music 25 Books 29 Dance 30 Theater 30 Film 31

Music

CITY LIGHTS: FRIDAY

INTRODUCING: JOHN LLOYD YOUNG MUSIC DIRECTION BY TOMMY FARAGHER

FRIDAY

NOV 8

bLuEs

Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. David Bromberg Big Band with Jordan Tice. 7:30 p.m. $49.50. birchmere.com.

Funk & R&b

Blues Alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Jonathan Butler. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $50–$55. bluesalley.com.

PoP

RONNIE SPECTOR & THE RONNETTES

Dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Max Frost. 8 p.m. $15. dcnine.com.

NOV 9 + 10

u street music hAll 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

Can't Feel My Face: 2010s Dance Party. 10 p.m. $12– $15. ustreetmusichall.com.

RoCk

9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Cursive. 8 p.m. $25. 930.com.

BlAck cAt 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Charlie Parr and Ghost of Paul Revere. 8 p.m. $16–$18. blackcatdc.com.

Fillmore silver spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. Behemoth. 7:30 p.m. $29.50. fillmoresilverspring.com.

NICOLE ATKINS NOV 14

rock & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Lifetime. 8 p.m. $25. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

HOT RIZE TH

40 ANNIVERSARY TOUR

union stAge 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. All Good Presents Aqueous with Mungion. 8 p.m. $13– $20. unionstage.com.

NOV 17

NEWMYER FLYER

JANIS JOPLIN & JIMI HENDRIX TRIBUTE

sAtuRDAY CLAssICAL

kenneDy center concert hAll 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. National Symphony Orchestra: Gaffigan conducts Russian Masterpieces. 8 p.m. $15– $89. kennedy-center.org.

ELECtRonIC

9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. U Street Music Hall Presents Ekali. 6 p.m. $25. 930.com.

FoLk

lincoln theAtre 1215 U St. NW. (202) 888-0050.

Edie Brickell & New Bohemians. 8 p.m. $40. thelincolndc.com.

Funk & R&b

the Anthem 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020. All Good Presents Lettuce, Waka Flocka Flame and Marcus King. 8 p.m. $41–$61. theanthemdc.com.

Blues Alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Jonathan Butler. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $50–$55. bluesalley.com.

JAzz

kenneDy center terrAce gAllery 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. KC Jazz Club: Songs of Freedom.

7 p.m.; 9 p.m. $20–$35. kennedy-center.org.

NOV 24

GEORGE GERSHWIN & FRIENDS

You may not know Charlie Parr, but he will sound familiar. The Duluth, Minnesota, bluesman has cranked out 13 albums in 15 years, inspired by titans like Bukka White, Charley Patton, and Mississippi John Hurt, and he plays on a seemingly non-stop tour. His latest album, 2017’s Dog, reinforces Parr as one of the premier practitioners of modern Piedmont blues. The title track is bound to join “1922 Blues” and “Rocky Raccoon” among Parr’s well known hits due to its clever dog point-of-view and memorable “a soul is a soul is a soul is a soul” refrain. He’s been a tremendous influence on many other musicians from the midwest, particularly Phil Cook (Hiss Golden Messenger, Megafaun), who covered Parr’s “1922 Blues” on Southland Mission and has brought Parr’s influence to the myriad of groups he plays with. With the DMV’s rich tradition and deep fan base of solo guitar music, Parr will fit right in at Black Cat. Charlie Parr performs at 8 p.m. at Black Cat, 1811 14th St. NW. $16–$18. (202) 667-4490. blackcatdc.com.

—Justin Weber

NOV 25

CHRIS SMITHER NOV 30

RED BARAAT DEC 1

EILEEN IVERS

A JOYFUL CHIRSTMAS DEC 2

TWO SHOWS

ARNAUD SUSSMANN, VIOLIN PAUL NEUBAUER, VIOLA DAVID FINCKEL, CELLO CHAMBER MUSIC AT THE BARNS

u street music hAll 1115 U St. NW. (202) 5881889. 9:30 Club Presents The Twilight Sad. 7 p.m. $18. ustreetmusichall.com.

RoCk

sunDAY

rock & roll hotel 1353 H St. NE. (202) 388-7625.

Polyphia. 8 p.m. $17–$20. rockandrollhoteldc.com.

BArns At WolF trAp 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. David Finckel and Wu Han. 3 p.m. $48. wolftrap.org.

9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Fleetmac Wood. 10 p.m. $20. 930.com.

JOHN EATON

CHARLIE PARR

CLAssICAL

JAN 11

ELECtRonIC

Fillmore silver spring 8656 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. (301) 960-9999. The Blaze. 8 p.m. $25. fillmoresilverspring.com.

FoLk

Birchmere 3701 Mount Vernon Ave., Alexandria.

(703) 549-7500. MIPSO & Friends “Dark Holler Pop Revisited” with special guests 10 String Symphony.

7:30 p.m. $29.50. birchmere.com.

AND MANY MORE!

WOLFTRAP.ORG

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Jazz

CITY LIGHTS: SATURDAY

Jason Moran

Artistic Director

KC Jazz Club

Miguel Zenón & Spektral Quartet: Yo Soy La Tradición Fri., November 16 at 7 & 9 p.m.

Jazz saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and educator Miguel Zenón is joined by Grammy®nominated Spektral Quartet to perform original compositions from his new album, an ambitious work inspired by the music and rhythms of his birthplace of Puerto Rico.

Jason Moran—James Reese Europe and The Harlem Hellfighters: The Absence of Ruin Sat., December 8 at 8 p.m.

LONG WAY DOWN

A brilliant book deserves a brilliant live show. That is precisely the treatment local author and poet Jason Reynolds’ Long Way Down is getting at the Kennedy Center. Reynolds, the author of this book, Miles Morales: Spider-Man, and many others, is a wonderful storyteller. And, perhaps more importantly, his stories sorely need telling. Long Way Down was written entirely in verse, and centers on Will, a young black boy whose elder brother was recently shot and killed.

The story takes place during a single suspended minute in Will’s life as he rides in an elevator while having to make an incredibly difficult decision. Reynolds told City Paper that the idea behind the 2017 book was to use every single part of the story to mimic a traumatized brain. An elevator—tight, closed, cold, dark, shaky, and literally hanging by a thread—would become the physical manifestation of trauma. Now, the book comes to the stage as a world premiere Kennedy Center commission starring Justin Weaks as Will. It’s a production about violence and trauma that, in the U.S., seems endlessly and devastatingly timely. The show runs to Nov. 4 at the Kennedy Center Family Theater, 2700 F St. NW. $25–$35. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

—Kayla Randall

FUNk & R&B

Jason Moran presents the U.S. premiere of The Absence of Ruin, his salute to James Reese Europe.

The first African American bandleader, Europe created an international demand for jazz and ragtime, forever changing the world of music. Through new arrangements and stunning visual media, Moran will explore the groundbreaking artist’s deep musical catalogue.

Blues Alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Jonathan Butler. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $50–$55. bluesalley.com. lincoln theAtre 1215 U St. NW. (202) 888-0050. Àngela Winbush. 7 p.m. $55–$65. thelincolndc.com.

POP 9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Christine and the Queens. 7 p.m. $35. 930.com.

ROck DAr constitution hAll 1776 D St. NW. (202) 6284780. Elvis Costello & The Imposters. 8 p.m. $101– $295. dar.org.

Discovery Artist in the KC Jazz Club

Quiana Lynell

Fri., December 14 at 7 & 9 p.m.

Enjoy festive holiday favorites with soul! Winner of the 2017 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, New Orleans–based Quiana Lynell performs seasonal classics, approaching the music as a storyteller. Her sound—a mix of jazz, classical, soul, and funk—is unlike any artist’s today.

Kennedy-Center.org (202) 467-4600

Groups call (202) 416-8400 For all other ticket-related customer service inquiries, call the Advance Sales Box Office at (202) 416-8540

Discovery Artists in the KC Jazz Club are supported by The Buffy and William Cafritz Family Foundation and The King-White Family Foundation and Dr. J. Douglas White.

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Dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. All Get Out. 7:30 p.m. $12–$15. dcnine.com. u street Music hAll 1115 U St. NW. (202) 588-1889.

9:30 Club Presents The Lemon Twigs. 7 p.m. $20. ustreetmusichall.com.

TUeSDAY cOUNTRY

BArns At Wolf trAp 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. The Lone Bellow. 8 p.m. $25–$35. wolftrap.org.

HiP-HOP

the AntheM 901 Wharf St. SW. (202) 888-0020. Lil Dicky. 8 p.m. $45–$149. theanthemdc.com.

BlAck cAt 1811 14th St. NW. (202) 667-4490. Yaeji.

7:30 p.m. $25. blackcatdc.com. union stAge 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487. Lyrics Born. 8 p.m. $19.50–$24.50. unionstage.com.

JAzz

Blues Alley 1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW. (202) 3374141. Roy Hargrove. 8 p.m.; 10 p.m. $45–$55. bluesalley.com.

ROck

sixth & i historic synAgogue 600 I St. NW. (202) 408-3100. Ghostland Observatory. 8 p.m. $27.50– $30. sixthandi.org.

MONDAY

WeDNeSDAY

union stAge 740 Water St. SW. (877) 987-6487.

PROF. 8 p.m. $15–$18. unionstage.com.

kenneDy center concert hAll 2700 F St. NW. (202) 467-4600. West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. 8 p.m. $45–$155. kennedy-center.org.

POP

cOUNTRY

HiP-HOP

9:30 cluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. St. Lucia. 7 p.m. $32.50. 930.com.

ROck Dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. The Nude Party. 8 p.m. $12–$15. dcnine.com.

cLASSicAL

BArns At Wolf trAp 1635 Trap Road, Vienna. (703) 255-1900. The Lone Bellow. 8 p.m. $25–$35. wolftrap.org.

HiP-HOP

Dc9 1940 9th St. NW. (202) 483-5000. Four Fists. 8 p.m. $18–$20. dcnine.com.

THIS WEEK’S SHOWS U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

Soulection’s The Sound of Tomorrow feat. Andre Power • Joe Kay • Devin Tracy • J. Robb • Andres Uribe ...............................Th NOV 1 Cursive w/ Meat Wave & Campdogzz ................................................................ F 2 U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS Ekali w/ 1788-L & Jaron Early Show! 6pm Doors ................................................. Sa 3 U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

Capital One Arena • Washington, D.C. AEG & I.M.P. PRESENT

PANIC!

DISTURBED

Fleetmac Wood: Rhiannon’s Revenge… A Halloween Disco

Late Show! 10pm Doors .......................................................................................... Sa 3

AT THE DISCO w/ Two Feet & Betty Who .JANUARY 20

AEG & I.M.P. PRESENT

w/ Three Days Grace .............................................. FEBRUARY 21 Ticketmaster

D NIGHT ADDED!

FIRST NIGHT SOLD OUT! SECON

St. Lucia w/ SHAED & The Colonies ................................................................ Tu 6 NOVEMBER

DECEMBER (cont.)

U STREET MUSIC HALL PRESENTS

SECOND SHOW ADDED!

MAX w/ Bryce Vine & EZI

Kurt Vile & The Violators w/ Jessica Pratt ............................Sa 1 Polo & Pan ................................Tu 4 Kodaline w/ Ocean Park Standoff .................W 5

Early Show! 6pm Doors.....................Th 8

AN EVENING WITH

Chris Robinson Brotherhood . F 9 Brett Dennen w/ Erin Rae

Early Show! 6pm Doors ...................Sa 10

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

Marcus King Band w/ Ida Mae ...................................Th 6 Neal Brennan This is a seated show. ........................Sa 8 BenDeLaCreme & Jinkx Monsoon:

Papadosio w/ LITZ

Late Show! 10:30pm Doors ...............Sa 10

Ty Segall (Solo Acoustic)

This is a seated show. ......................Tu 13

Randy Rogers Band w/ Parker McCollum ....................F 16 Wild Nothing w/ Men I Trust ..Su 18 The Dead South w/ The Hooten Hallers

To Jesus, Thanks for Everything! Jinkx & DeLa This is a seated show. Su 9

Gang of Youths w/ Gretta Ray . M 10 Phosphorescent w/ Liz Cooper & The Stampede..... Tu 11

& Del Suelo .................................Tu 20

Allen Stone w/ Nick Waterhouse ....................W 21 Hot in Herre: 2000s Dance Party

D NIGHT ADDED!

FIRST NIGHT SOLD OUT! SECON

Colter Wall w/ Vincent Neil Emerson .............W 28

Thievery Corporation w/ The Suffers ..............................F 14 Cat Power ................................Su 16 The Oh Hellos Christmas Extravaganza w/ The Family Crest ...................W 19 Hiss Golden Messenger .....Th 20 Snail Mail w/ Empath ................F 21

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

ALL GOOD PRESENTS

with DJs Will Eastman & Ozker • Visuals by Kylos ........................F 23

All the Divas -

A Dance Party with DJ lil’e ..Sa 24

Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds w/ The Rad Trads ......................Tu 29 Kurt Vile & The Violators w/ Jessica Pratt ............................F 30

MANY MORE SHOWS ON SALE!

9:30 CUPCAKES

Big Something & Too Many Zooz w/ Electric Love Machine ..........Sa 22 Margo Price w/ Lilly Hiatt ......Th 27

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Lincoln Theatre • 1215 U Street, NW Washington, D.C. THIS FRIDAY!

Elle King w/ Cordovas ...................NOV 2 Esperanza Spalding ..............DEC 1 AEG PRESENTS Adam Conover .........................DEC 2

THIS SATURDAY!

AN EVENING WITH

Edie Brickell Jewel - Handmade Holiday Tour & New Bohemians ................NOV 3 w/ Atz, Atz Lee, Nikos Kilcher ..............DEC 6 Ingrid Michaelson Trio THIS MONDAY! Inside Netflix’s The Staircase - Songs for the Season ......... DEC 12 & Making a Murderer: Story District’s Top Shelf . JAN 19 Fabrications, Lies, Fake Science, and the Owl Theory Neko Case w/ Margaret Glaspy .. JAN 26 feat. David Rudolf and Jerry Buting Moderated by NPR’s Carrie Johnson .NOV 5 Joe Jackson - Four Decade Tour........................ FEB 9 Richard Thompson Electric Trio w/ Rory Block .......NOV 8 LP .................................................... FEB 19 Ólafur Arnalds ........................NOV 14 Alice Smith ................................. MAR 9 AURORA w/ Talos ....................... MAR 10 LIVE NATION PRESENTS Stay Tuned with Preet Bharara FIRST SHOW SOLD OUT! SECOND SHOW ADDED! with special guest Chuck Todd .........NOV 15 AEG PRESENTS Bert Kreischer 9:30pm Doors . MAR 14 Jackson Galaxy - Host of Animal Planet’s José González My Cat from Hell ...................NOV 21

9:30 CLUB PRESENTS AT U STREET MUSIC HALL

Ezra Furman w/ Omni .......... Tu NOV 1 The Twilight Sad .......................Sa 3 The Lemon Twigs w/ Jungle Green .Su 4 Brandon Wardell Live w/ Chase Bernstein ..........................M 5 Yeah, But Still Podcast with Brandon Wardell and Jack Wagner ..Tu 6 Justin Courtney Pierre w/ Pronoun ..F 9 Pale Waves w/ Miya Folick & The Candescents ......Sa 10

Low w/ IN/VIA .............................. M 12 Darkest Hour w/ Damnation A.D. •

Cemetery Piss • Walk the Plank • No Man . Tu 13

IDK w/ Global Dan .........................W 21 Yung Pinch w/ Tyla Yaweh & Yung Manny ............Sa 24 Freddie Gibbs w/ G Perico ...........Tu 27 Tall Heights w/ Frances Cone & Old Sea Brigade .....W 28

• Buy advance tickets at the 9:30 Club box office • 930.com

TICKETS for 9:30 Club shows are available through TicketFly.com, by phone at 1-877-4FLY-TIX, and at the 9:30 Club box office.

9:30 CLUB BOX OFFICE HOURS are 12-7pm on weekdays & until 11pm on show nights, 6-11pm on Sat, and 6-10:30pm on Sun on show nights.

HAPPY HOUR DRINK PRICES impconcerts.com AFTER THE SHOW AT THE BACK BAR!

& The String Theory............ MAR 20

• thelincolndc.com • U Street (Green/Yellow) stop across the street!

PARKING: THE OFFICIAL 9:30 parking lot entrance is on 9th Street, directly behind the 9:30 Club. Buy your advance parking tickets at the same time as your concert tickets!

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Fort Washington-born Jeff Kinney, the author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, is back with The Meltdown—the series’ lucky number 13th installment. This installment finds everyone’s favorite middle school everykid Greg and his bestie Rowley on the ultimate tween holiday—a snow day— off of school and taking on an epic neighborhood snowball fight. A Wimpy Kid release isn’t just a book reading or signing but a full-on party for kids and adults alike. Dubbed Wimpy Kid Live: The Meltdown Show, the hour-long event will feature trivia, cartooning, kooky audience participation, and even snowball fights. Kinney won’t be signing any books after the show, as each fan ticket comes with a pre-signed copy of the book, but he will be available for photos with fans so practice your best funny face. Whether you have a kiddo who loves Greg Heffley’s foibles and Presented by hijinks or you yourself are a wimpy kid at heart, this is a night of much-needed, totally silly fun.

The event begins at 5 p.m. at the UDC Theater of the Arts, 4200 Connecticut Ave. NW. $22. (202) 3641919. politics-prose.com.

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9:30 CluB 815 V St. NW. (202) 265-0930. Billie Eilish.

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Books

ellen CRosBy Ellen Crosby discusses her new book Harvest of Secrets, the ninth installment in her Virginia Wine Country Mystery series, about the search for the killer of an aristocratic French winemaker. One More Page Books. 2200 N. Westmoreland Street, No. 101, Arlington. Nov. 7. 7 p.m. Free. (703) 300-9746. kevin CoRnell Bestselling author Kevin Cornell chats with young readers about his children’s book Lucy Fell Down a Mountain, a slapstick comedy about a girl who falls down a mountain and has trouble asking other characters for help. Solid State Books. 600 H St. NE. Nov. 4. 10:30 a.m. Free. (202) 897-4201. nAtionAl pRess CluB Book fAiR D.C.'s premier holiday book event is back for its 41st year, as Politics

CITY LIGHTS: MONDAY

ALAN BROADBENT

Listening to an Alan Broadbent jazz piano solo is a myth buster in itself. There are those who imagine that jazz improvisation abhors the notions of organization or refinement, that a spontaneous solo has to sound spontaneous or it doesn’t count. With Broadbent, though, every measure, every note, perhaps even every gesture feels carefully considered and thoughtfully orchestrated. The New Zealander introduces ideas, develops them organically, and ties them up with the precision of a Macy’s gift wrap. How do we know they’re improvised, then? For one thing by the fervor: One motif suddenly leads into another, or an embellishment pops out at random.

But more tellingly, it’s in Broadbent’s face; you can see him thinking, eyes closed and brow furrowed behind the keyboard as he searches the data banks for content to place into the next four bars. The results always compute. Alan Broadbent performs at 7 p.m. at the Arts Club of Washington, 2017 I St. NW. $25–$30. (202) 331-7282. artsclubofwashington.org.

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ANASTASIA

Among four musicals derived from children’s entertainment that recently opened on Broadway, the best is widely agreed to be the least likely contender. That’s why the touring show settling in for a month-long run at the Kennedy Center is not SpongeBob SquarePants, not Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and certainly not Frozen. It’s Anastasia. The first national tour of a musical based on the 1997 animated film stars newcomer Lila Coogan, stepping into the role originally voiced by Meg Ryan, and singing songs performed in the film by Liz Callaway. Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty wrote the music and lyrics, while playwright Terrence McNally gets credit for the book. It’s an adaptation that should suit both big kids who loved the movie two decades ago and younger theatergoers. Maximized is the beauty of songs “Once Upon a December” and “Journey to the Past,” as are the opulent gowns Russian royalty wear as they waltz around onstage. Is the orphan named Anya really the missing Princess Anastasia? Or is she just a scheming dreamer? The great 20th century mystery of the Romanovs is still suitable for romance novels, for Amazon Studios, and for the stage. The musical runs to Nov. 25 at the Kennedy Center Opera House, 2700 F St. NW. $49-$175. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

—Rebecca J. Ritzel and Prose partners with the National Press Club Journalism Institute for a night of pols, pundits, and prose.

More than 90 authors—including Nicole Chung, Jennifer Palmieri, April Ryan, Brian Noyes, Mark Leibovich, Laura Wides-Muñoz, and Ralph Nader—will be on hand to talk to their fans and sign books. National Press Club. 529 14th St. NW. Nov. 2. 5:30 p.m. $5–$10.

(202) 662-7500.

Dance

Fuego Flamenco Festival: Reditum This highspirited performance from Spanish flamenco dancer José Barrios and company makes its U.S. premiere.

GALA Hispanic Theatre. 3333 14th St. NW. Nov. 8. 8 p.m. $25–$48. (202) 234-7174. galatheatre.org.

Ragamala dance company: WRitten in WateR In this new work, Ragamala Dance Company explores the psychological implications of the Indian board game Paramapadam through a blend of original music and traditional bharatanatyam dance. Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. 2700 F St. NW. Nov. 2. 7:30 p.m.; Nov. 3. 7:30 p.m. $39. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

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WoRds, Beats, & liFe: top notch In heated rounds of one-on-one battles, the nation’s most talented b-girls and b-boys will defend their legacies and compete for cash prizes at hip-hop nonprofit Words, Beats, & Life’s eighth annual Top Notch competition. Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. Nov. 4. 6 p.m. Free. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

Theater

actually Theater J presents the timely story of Tom and Amber, two college freshmen who find themselves in a Title IX hearing after a casual hookup doesn’t go as planned. This production is directed by Johanna Gruenhut and written by Anna Ziegler. Arena Stage. 1101 6th St. SW. To Nov. 18. $30–$69. (202) 4883300. arenastage.org. aida Constellation Theatre Company presents Elton John’s epic musical, based on the opera of the same name. It follows the forbidden love story of the Nubian princess Aida and Ramades, the Egyptian captain who enslaved her people. Constellation Theatre at Source. 1835 14th St. NW. To Nov. 18. $25–$55. (202) 204-7741. constellationtheatre.org.

CITY LIGHTS: WEDNESDAY

AnAstAsiA Based on the animated film of the same name, the tour of this dazzling Broadway production from the Tony-winning creators of Ragtime makes its way to D.C. In Anastasia, a young orphan uncovers secrets about her past when two con men take advantage of her resemblance to the presumeddead duchess Anastasia. Kennedy Center Opera House. 2700 F St. NW. To Nov. 25. $49–$149. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

Anything goes This “gold standard” musical comedy with music by Cole Porter tells the story of ocean liner stowaway Billy Crocker, who seeks to win the love of heiress Hope Harcourt and stop her marriage to the millionaire Lord Evelyn Oakleigh. Arena Stage.

1101 6th St. SW. To Dec. 23. $66–$105. (202) 4883300. arenastage.org.

Beetlejuice This new Alex Timbers-directed musical, adapted from Tim Burton’s 1988 film, makes its world premiere prior to Broadway. With music by Eddie Perfect and a book by Scott Brown, Beetlejuice tells the story of a quirky teenager who moves into a house haunted by its deceased owners and an elusive trickster demon. National Theatre. 1321 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. To Nov. 18. $54–$114. (202) 628-6161. nationaltheatre.org. the FAll Written by seven student activists who helped dismantle the statue of Cecil Rhodes at the University of Cape Town, The Fall grapples with race, class, history and power in the aftermath of Apartheid through song and dance. Studio Theatre. 1501 14th St. NW. To Nov. 18. $20–$55. (202) 332-3300. studiotheatre.org. how i leArned to drive Round House’s production of this Pulitzer-winning play is directed by Amber Paige McGinnis and written by Paula Vogel. This timely story chronicles one woman’s struggle to break free from the cycle of sexual abuse and come to terms with her traumatizing memories. Round House Theatre Bethesda. 4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda. To Nov. 4. $48.40–$67. (240) 644-1100. roundhousetheatre.org.

King john This historic Shakespeare play dramatizes the life of King John of England, who wages war on France after the King Philip demands that he renounce the throne. Directed by Aaron Posner, this production features Kate Eastwood Norris as Philip the Bastard and Holly Twyford as Constance. Folger Shakespeare Library. 201 E. Capitol St. SE. To Dec. 2. $42-$79. (202) 544-7077. folger.edu. long wAy down In this world premiere production, D.C. native Jason Reynolds’ bestselling book comes to the stage. The story follows fifteen-year-old Will, who sets out to avenge his brother Shawn’s fatal shooting but is interrupted by a series of unexpected visitors. Kennedy Center Family Theater. 2700 F St. NW. To Nov. 4. $25–$35. (202) 467-4600. kennedy-center.org.

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Film

AN EVENING WITH JOHN

MAD SKILLET

BeAutiFul Boy Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet star as a father and son whose relationship experiences trials and tribulations as the son struggles with drug addiction over many years. Co-starring Maura Tierney and Amy Ryan. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

DAISIES

One of the defining films of the Czech New Wave, 1966 comedy-drama Daisies packs a dazzling visual inventiveness and madcap surrealism into its compact 76 minutes. The movie follows the subversive misadventures of two teen girls (Ivana Karbanová and Jitka Cerhová), both named Marie. A strict Catholic upbringing fueled director Věra Chytilová’s avant-garde vision; the Maries launch a campaign of anarchic mischief after taking fruit from what is clearly The Tree of of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. With exaggerated comic sound effects, tinted filmstock, and rapid-fire editing, the movie frequently feels like an experimental feminist episode of The Benny Hill Show. The AFI Silver screens Daisies as part of the city-wide series Films Across Borders: Stories of Women, a showcase for new and classic movies—by and about women. The film screens at 5:15 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, 8633 Colesville Road, Silver Spring. $8–$13. (301) 495-6700. afi.com/silver.

—Pat Padua

BohemiAn rhApsody Rami Malek stars as rock icon Freddie Mercury in this chronicle of his journey as frontman of the legendary band Queen. Co-starring Lucy Boynton and Ben Hardy. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) cAn you ever Forgive me? Melissa McCarthy stars in this true story as a celebrity biographer who begins to use her writing to deceive audiences. Costarring Richard E. Grant and Dolly Wells. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) First mAn Legendary astronaut Neil Armstrong prepares for the space mission that led to him becoming the first person to walk on the moon. Starring Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, and Jason Clarke. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information) gooseBumps 2: hAunted hAlloween A mischievous talking dummy wreaks havoc and brings ghoulish friends to life on Halloween. Starring Wendi McLendon-Covey, Jack Black, and Madison Iseman.

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DK3 DANITY KANE

After Destiny’s Child and before Fifth Harmony, there was Danity Kane, a pop-R&B girl group and the most successful product of Diddy’s Making the Band. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a band formed on a reality show has had a tumultuous go of it, with more than its share of rumors, dismissals, reunions, and studio fights. These days, Danity Kane is Aubrey O’Day, Shannon Bex, and Dawn Richard, and for their latest reunion, everyone gets to shine. O’Day and Bex will open the show as the electro-pop duo Dumblonde, followed by Richard as a solo act, before coming together for some Danity Kane favorites. The one to watch here remains Richard, who established herself as an R&B trailblazer after Danity Kane’s first run, thanks to her versatile voice and killer dance moves. Most importantly, Richard has a vision for the future of club music and a willingness to work with anyone who can help her make it a reality. She’s had the vision since the beginning: The Danity Kane moniker was borrowed from an anime character she created.

DK3 Danity Kane perform at 8 p.m. at the Howard Theatre, 620 T St. NW. $35–$65. (202) 803-2899. thehowardtheatre.com.

—Chris Kelly

Halloween Jamie Lee Curtis reprises her role as Laurie Strode, this time coming to her final confrontation with serial killer Michael Myers. Starring Judy Greer and Andi Matichak. (See washingtoncitypaper. com for venue information) tHe Hate u give When young girl Starr Carter witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend, Khalil, at the hands of a police officer, she must face the pressure she feels from all sides of the incident—from her family to her boyfriend, to other members of her school and home life communities— and find her voice and stand up for what's right. Starring Amandla Stenberg, Regina Hall, and Russell Hornsby. (See washingtoncitypaper.com for venue information)

Chained dogs suffer day in and day out.

They endure sweltering temperatures, hunger, and thirst and are vulnerable and lonely. Keep them inside, where it’s safe and comfortable.

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“Unfortunately, this situation is very common— but luckily there are options to help her get her groove back,” said Dr. Rachel Gelman, a pelvic floor physical therapist at the Pelvic Health and Rehabilitation Center (pelvicpainrehab.com).

Also sadly common: OB/GYNs shrugging off concerns like yours, TIA. “I see that all the time,” said Dr. Gelman.

“Part of the problem is that the pelvic floor/muscles aren’t on most doctor’s radar. That’s due to many factors—cough, cough, insurance companies, cough, our dysfunctional health care system, cough—but to water it down, it’s the OB/ GYN’s job to get someone through pregnancy and deliver a healthy baby. And when that’s accomplished, the feeling is their job is done.”

But so long as you’re not able to have and enjoy PIV sex with your hung husband, TIA, there’s still work to do.

“TIA needs to see a pelvic floor physical therapist,” said Dr. Gelman. “A good PT would be able to assess and treat any pelvic floor dysfunction, which is often the primary cause or a contributing factor for anyone experiencing pain with sex, especially after childbirth.”

At this point Dr. Gelman began to explain that pushing a living, breathing, screaming human being out of your body is an intense experience and I explained to Dr. Gelman that I’ve had to push a few living, breathing, screaming human beings out of my body, thank you very much. Dr. Gelman clarified that she was talking about “the trauma of labor and delivery,” something with which I have no experience.

“Labor and delivery can have a significant impact on the pelvic floor muscles which can cause a myriad of symptoms,” said Dr. Gelman. Pain during PIV sex sits high on the list of those symptoms.

“The fact that TIA had tearing with the deliveries means she most likely has scar tissue, and a PT would again be able to treat the scar to help decrease any hypomobility and hyper-

Pushing a living, breathing, screaming human being out of your body is an intense experience. sensitivity,” said Dr. Gelman. “A pelvic floor specialist can also instruct her in a home program which may include stretches, relaxation techniques, and dilators—dilators are graduated cylinders that are inserted vaginally to help stretch the vaginal opening and promote relaxation of the pelvic floor.”

A set of “graduated cylinders” is essentially “a bouquet of dildos,” TIA. You start with the smallest dilator/dildo, inserting it every day until you can insert it without any pain or discomfort, and then you “graduate” (nudge, nudge) to the next “cylinder” (wink, wink).

You can order a set of dilators online, TIA, but Dr. Gelman wants you to find a doc that specializes in sexual medicine first.

“There are some good medical associations that she can check out for resources and to help locate a provider in her area,” said Dr. Gelman.

“The websites of the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH), the International Society for Sexual Medicine (ISSM) and the International Pelvic Pain Society (IPPS) are where she should start.”

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You can’t make that gay guy fall in love with you, IMPROVS, anymore than I could make Hasan Minhaj fall in love with me. Getting over him is your only option, and that’s gonna take some time and most likely some space, too. (I’d recommend seeing less of your crush after this class ends.) But give yourself some credit for doing something proactive about your social anxiety, for taking a risk, and for asking your classmate out. You didn’t take that improv class to find love, right? You took it to combat your social anxiety—and it sounds like you won a few battles, IMPROVS, if not the war. The takeaway here isn’t, “It didn’t work with him so why should I bother ever trying again with someone else?”, but, “I did it—I made a connection, I asked someone out—and I’m going do it again and hopefully it’ll work out next time.” —DS I’m an early 30s hetero-flexible man in an open marriage with a bi woman, though both of us have been too chicken to actually go through on acting on the “open” part. Neither of us are hung up on jealousy, so that’s not a factor here. I recently confessed to my wife that I have had a long-standing desire to sleep with a trans woman. Yes, I know that it’s immature to not have disclosed all my kink cards prior to marriage, but I have my reasons, and thankfully, my wonderful wife let me off the hook and was very supportive. I expressed to her that I have considered seeing a professional trans escort rather than trying for a “hook up” situation. Her reaction was highly negative, as she has the impression that anyone in the sex trade industry is—by definition—a victim. Where do I go from here? I am uncomfortable with the idea of putting myself out there to meet a trans woman in my city (especially since I’m not looking for a relationship), but I don’t want to violate my wife’s trust and see an escort.

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Put yourself on a dating and/or hookup app, say that you’re partnered and only looking for something casual, and add that you welcome responses from trans women. Some trans women are rightly annoyed by all the cis men out there who only wanna hook up, DKWTD, and never date or be seen in public with them. But trans folks are just like other folks—some are taken, some are looking, some are taken and looking. If you get grief from a trans woman who’s annoyed that you aren’t open to dating women like her, DKWTD, let her vent—her frustrations are perfectly legitimate—while you wait for a response from a trans woman looking to buy what you’re selling.

P.S. The trans escorts I know—women who freely chose their jobs—will be surprised to learn that they’re victims, at least according to your highly opinionated and woefully misinformed wife.

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